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Women Live Longer Because Men Are Dumb
stevesliva writes "CNEWS Canada reported on Sept. 30th that, 'If men dropped their risky ways and bad habits they would live just as long as women.' The story was an interesting spin on a study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, which spun the study very differently. (Thanks to ThisIsTrue for bringing the respun spin to my attention.)"
One thing this article absolutely fails to mention is the fact that many dangerous and unhealthy (in a sense) jobs are usually done by men.
I'm not a sexist or anything stupid like that, but how many female welders or construction workers (ones who do the construction) do you know?
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?
Men die sooner than women because we want to.
Its that till death do us part bit
By dying off early, they'll consume less of the limited resources of planet Earth. So go on ... Because when you die, the planet can stop wasting its finite resources on you. ;)
Woaah.. this sounds along the lines of:
* "To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem." - Lamont Cole
* "This is as good a way to get rid of them as any." - Charles Wursta, Environtmental Defense Fund in response to the implications of millions dying of malaria from a global ban on DDT.
* "I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds." - Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace
* "While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind." - David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth
* "Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet." - David M. Graber, research biologist with the National Park Service
* "Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." - John Davis, editor of Earth First Journal
* "I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems." - John Davis
It sounds like these people all have one thing in common: complete disregard and lack of care for human life. I'm not sure about you, but I'm completely against the environmental movement. I'm all for saving the environment, but not at the cost of someone's life. When resources get running too low, I believe our increase in technology will make up for it.
On a side note, does taking rides improve your chances of not getting killed in a car wreck? I agree that taking less rides improves your chances, or riding a bus, but I trust my own defensive driving skills over my neighbor's any day.
Sure thing! You can actually find quotes like this all over:
c les/fee/average.html
r istianity'sdefinition.htm
:)
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/arti
http://www.cei.org/gencon/029,03332.cfm
http://www.off-road.com/green/ecoquote.html
http://www.bloomington.in.us/~lgthscac/biblicalch
If you copy one of those quotes into Google, you'll come up with a whole slew of good results.
Offtopic Stuff:
Always good to compliment the fellow slashdotter - the sliderule thing mentioned in your sig is awesome. I got a couple sliderules and read the Log-Log Duplex Decitrig Slide Rule Manual to learn how to use them. My plan was to use a sliderule in the classes where calculators were not allowed
Hopefully the sliderule will not go the way of the Abacus.. the symbols in the books that teach abacus algorithms are all forgotten; nobody knows how to use an abacus like we did at the beginning of the century. It took only 50 years of western influence (pencil and paper math) on Japan at the beginning of the 20th century for them to completely forget how to use it. Pretty amazing. Although we can at least read our former sliderule books, hardly anybody knows how to use them. And for a legitimate reason too: we have calculators.
I expect you won't take me very seriously. Five or six years ago I would've agreed with you, but my father really taught me this lesson by his example. All I hope is that you stop living your life in fear of death and start living it in delight of life, before it's too late.
According to statistics from 1997 to 1999, Canadian women have a life expectancy of 81.4 years compared with 75.9 years for men.
But when deaths from preventable causes are excluded, life expectancy for women is 73.5 years, slightly less than the average of 73.9 for men.
As the title says... I guess old age is a preventable cause of death. Why else would the average life expectency go down when preventable causes are excluded from the calc?
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read. - Japanese proverb
Isn't it interesting that when women die or have poor health it's viewed as a societal problem and when men die or have poor health it's viewed as our own damned fault?
Men die because our lives are less valued than women's, and we are brought up to value our lives less. We are surrounded by cultural propoganda dedicated to the proposition that the gruesome death of a young man is, literally, glorious.
Until we value the lives of men as highly as we value the lives of women, men's lives will continue to be shorter and poorer than women's.
The data reported in this study contain many subtle cues as to how men routinely mistreat themselves: for example, men take fewer disability days than women. This is not because men suffer from fewer hurts and harms, but because we are taught from birth that it's more important to sacrifice ourselves than take to care of ourselves. And sacrifice ourselves we do.
--Tom
Blasphemy is a human right. Blasphemophobia kills.
Male stereotypes. I don't think this is genetics, rather its purely societal/psychological.
This kind of stuff messes up both genders. Women are pressured into anorexic behaviour, and not making use of the talents they have - or often restrained in their endeavors due to pure sexism, as well as the guys which are coaxed into glorification by providing violent entertainment for the masses - i.e. contact sports and the glorification of reckless driving by the media.
I think we are evolving to see beyond this, even though a lot of conservatives sure whine a lot about it. I know the religious cults sure have a lot to say over how people are supposed to be constrained to social functions by which sex they are, irregardless of what capabilities or psychological bent for fulfillment of happiness an individual has.
A lot of guys seem bred from birth to be aggressive, leading to all sorts of diseases resulting from it, whereas a lot of women seem bred from birth to endure a life of servitude and boredom.
But guess what? We are seeing this for what it is. Now, due to mass communication channels opening up out of control of those who use dominance of religion or whatever to control the populace, we see this behaviour for what it is, and have the choice whether or not to follow it.
Often, not following in the norm can be difficult, as you are seen as contentious and not a team player - and often ostracized - when enough people see it, things change. They always have, they always will.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]