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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Life Expectancy
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 19:31:54 EDT
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> Most ... inequities seem to be biases against women hence
> the need for a net.women but no net.men.

But how about a net.sex_roles? That would cover a lot of stuff in a fair way.

> The death rate
> for females is substantially less than that for males at all ages from birth
> up to somewhere in the eighties.  This seems to be true in most if not all
> cultures as well.

OK, but what are the stats for men who avoid the behavioral factors, and are 
thus only affected by the biological ones? Men kill themselves by:

Drinking to excess
Smoking tobacco (but women are catching up!)
Use of drugs
Getting in fights
Getting in wars (except WW3 will kill us all)
Working in dangerous occupations
Macho driving
Dangerous sports, and taking extra risks in them
Working too hard
Suicide (many more men than women kill themselves)
Having anything to do with firearms

Agreed, we poor men are "the weaker vessel", but what would the figures look
like if we acted more sensibly?

John Purbrick					jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA
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