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- From: gazit@duke.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
- Newsgroups: soc.men,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
- Message-ID: <725981398@lear.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 13:29:59 GMT
- References: 31@lear.cs.duke.edu> <1993Jan1.032047.18124@panix.com>
- Reply-To: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel)
- Followup-To: soc.men,alt.feminism
- Organization: Nefolet shel nemushot (Fallout of Wimps)
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- In article <1993Jan1.032047.18124@panix.com>
- gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:
- >About the length of lives: men have a higher metabolic rate
- >(on the average) than women. Thus it seems likely that their
- >bodies wear out faster. One could disprove this by showing
- >some social arrangement where men lived longer than women,
- >other things being equal; but I don't know of one.
-
- 1) Through out history, till the 20'th century, men lived longer
- than women.
-
- 2) Women after menopause are in a very different hormone balance
- than younger women, but men keep their level of hormones
- much more stable.
-
- 3) There are correlation between occupation and death (e.g. heart
- attacks in accountants before April first).
-
- 4) Is not it interesting that when women are the losing side (e.g.
- more men learn math), the default assumption is that society
- is to be blamed, and the poor weak women need some compensation,
- but when men are the losing side, the "pro equality people" are
- ready with long explanation why it is just biology...
-