Evan Urquhart

If you think about social contagion- without the sexist cultural lens, you quickly realize women aren't more prone to it than men. Bros who binge drink and get alcohol poisoning or serious injuries are an example of men doing self harm for attention and to fit in.https://twitter.com/e_urq/status/1353024752500269057 …

We don't call frat alcohol use "social contagion" bc culturally social contagion describes how weak girls are. But as a phenomenon it could describes this and many other risky/harmful male behaviors as well or better than the things we think of like self-cutting.

I honestly can't think of one guy ever telling me they self-cut. They have to exist but don't talk about it. Lots of drinking and punching walls though.

Exactly- punching walls is an almost one-for-one comparison- very common for a guy to do it once or twice, a few guys have serious issues and break their hands or destroy their homes.

I don't want to call it common, the guys I know that do that stuff are usually few and far between and mostly vets with ptsd. I'd wager 99% (making this up) of my guy friends don't throw their phones or punch walls

Just to kind of defend bro-hood which I'm very not apt to do