Actually, if you read the original article I cite in Politico, I do address male suicides quite extensively. And here’s the rub missing from your commentary about sympathy for that issue: the majority of male suicides (which to be clear is a phenomenon specific to white men; men of color in this nation have comparatively very low suicide rates) in many states are actually murder-suicides, where most often the male kills himself along with his female partner or ex-partner &/or their family. It’s harder to have sympathy there, and it’s something conveniently & conspicuously missing from this narrative — again I would argue due to male editorial bias (I’ve tried to pitch this story over and over again: why when we speak about suicides do we not tease apart the murder-suicide rates committed by men. No male editor will let it out there). Women actually attempt to commit suicide in much greater numbers than men, but fail at it because the single greatest contributor to a successful suicide is the role of a gun in its attempt. And women almost never attempt to kill others along with them when they make their suicide attempts. Men succeed at committing suicide in greater numbers though they overall attempt it less; but by and large when they attempt it, they tend to do so with a gun, they commonly try to take down others with them — as happens often in the epidemic of mass shootings — another symptom of toxic masculinity.