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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Life Expectancy
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 12:07:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 12:07:26 1985
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> Re: Life Expectancy_____________________________________________________________
> 
> > It is interesting to note that in at least one very important way nature has
> > the opposite bias [that is, against men instead of against women].  Namely,
> > the life expectancy of females is roughly 10% greater than that for males.
> 
> > At least one feminist friend of mine thinks that there is a pleasing if rough
> > justice in this.
> 

In the last century, men lived dramatically longer than women; were men less
oppressive towards women in the last century?  No.  When people let their
emotions take precedence over thinking (as the man-hating faction of feminism
seems to), it leads them into absurdities like the one above.