But it's that attitude. Any problem that specifically seems to affect men: "haven't we already done enough". Well clearly not, if one group is disproportionately suffering some outcome.
Except it's not even remotely "haven't we already done enough". People,
especially those left-inclined ones you seem to be railing about, have been pushing for better mental health resources for basically forever, usually as part of a general campaign to improve health care on the whole. That includes suicide prevention and what's related to it both for men who are more likely to succeed if they try and less likely to try, and women who are less likely to succeed but more likely to try.
If you're trying to say that men need more efforts directed to them to reduce success rates, despite the fact that the actual problems causing the attempts (i.e. what mental health can help with, what political efforts can realistically address, and so on) is less prevalent with them, well, guess what? Firearm control is part of the general platforms the folks you're yelling at tend to lean towards. So is support for increased funding for mental health care. So is support for men to actually fucking use the resources we have available. So is cultural attempts to drag men towards social practices that help mitigate the issue (such as talking to people about their problems, acknowledging emotions, and all that rot). And on, and on, and on.
Also being in a public news journal means close to jack all when it comes to psych research, particularly when it's a subject where specific attention outside of what we already have isn't really
needed. You don't need explanatory research, we already have the goddamn explanation. Of course public awareness is going to be low,
it is for suicide in general. And so on. There's not some kind of damn mystery going on here.
Also that first one is the one you already linked to. And I already addressed. The statistic is sensational bullshit, we know exactly what's causing boys and young men to take their lives -- same as everyone else, with the addition of a handful of cultural issues (we're aware and working on it!) -- and little effort is made to understand the trend
because it takes basically no effort to understand it. And hey, the second one repeats the same goddamn statistic. How someone spends twenty years on suicide research and fucks
that up I have no idea. Hopefully it was just the PhD not paying attention.
All that said, there actually
is a handful of suicide prevention programs in the US directed specifically towards majority male demographics. It's just mostly focused on veterans and military (and even
that has been about seven different kinds of fight and continues to be complete friggin' misery to keep going and getting better) because the conservative side of our culture is fucked up (when it comes to psych issues in
particular) and has been fighting tooth and nail to do everything they can to make health care --
particularly mental health care -- worse and the cultural issues leading to higher rates of success that much stronger. You can expect that to get worse still over the next few years
Seriously though, do you really not realize you're yelling at just about the only people in this country trying to address the problem you're going off about? Or that fixing the general problem will largely address the specific one? That the culture problems are in fact ones that are trying to be softened? All that mess? To a massive extent there's not specific measures needed or existent because every freaking thing that could be done on that front is already being done, either as part of the general efforts against suicide or from efforts related to other cultural issues.