Men's life expectancy

TheTinMenBlog · 2021-03-09T15:15:29+00:00

What would happen if we divided every nation by gender, within each country creating a ‘land of men’..

What would it look like?
How sick would they be?
Would they need our help?

The life expectancy and health of American men, for example, has dropped so dramatically that it now compares to women of Saudi Arabia and North Korea.

And yet America *still* only has an Office on Women’s health, to research and understand women’s wellbeing - yet nothing for men, does that make sense to you?

It’s about time we stopped this myth of ubiquitous ‘male privilege’ and started actually helping them.

And no, telling men to cry won’t solve this problem, neither will calling masculinity ‘toxic’. Change must come from real, political, economic, legislative and Governmental action, and most of all - from unity.

But will we see it in our lifetime?

Sources:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
[2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/mars-vs-venus-the-gender-gap-in-health

matrixislife · 2021-03-09T18:08:12+00:00

I think a major consideration in age at death between the sexes is pension age.
If women are living 5 or so years longer than men, why on earth are men expected to retire later than women?
Surely it should be the other way round?

YesAmAThrowaway · 2021-03-09T16:04:28+00:00

Here is a link to a screenshot in the comment section of this post on instagram, mentioning several factors that play into how this statistic ends up being what it is: https://twitter.com/Errik51584789/status/1369317893784145930?s=19

kujakutenshi · 2021-03-09T16:50:43+00:00

IMO it should be a unisex ministry and not one devoted to specific gender. Competing ministries will not solve the problem if one is more likely to get funding than the other.

DanteLivra · 2021-03-09T16:31:54+00:00

I strongly advocate for a ministry for men to be institutionalized in all countries.

CaptSnap · 2021-03-09T18:48:23+00:00

Ive never found much data that men ever outlived women. Was it ever different?

Theres mountains of data that the wealthy outlive the poor. Which is what youd expect. Those with power take resources from those without and those with resources live longer than those without. Kind of simple stuff.

But why do women outlive men yet men supposedly have the power?

AskingToFeminists · 2021-03-09T16:59:40+00:00

Honestly, I have strong doubts about how wise it is to have a ministry dedicated to men. I mean, we all wish it would turn out like LWMA, but I think we all know that it would turn out more like MensLib : controlled opposition by feminists, serving as a pretext to ignore men, and otherwise pushing harmful feminist propaganda on men. But with the power of the state backing it up.

I shudder.

ThrowawayIIllIIlIl · 2021-03-09T17:41:27+00:00

So I am curious to know what you guys' take on this is. Because the massive discrepancy in life expectancy between men and women is caused by women biologically having more longevity. Actually, I feel like the ubiquitousness of women getting older than men only proves that this is not a result of discrimination, harder labour, or cultural norms. But rather an effect of womens immune systems being stronger.

I do think an office on health issues specific for men, like prostate cancer for example, would be warranted. Prostate cancer kills more than breast cancer but research into treatments for this cancer is massively underfunded in comparison. This is in no small part because people find it harder to empathize with the 60 year old men that die from these kinds of cancers.

I also have some encouraging news. I once did a course on a subject touching on all this and the vast majority of the medical specialists, most of them women, where in agreement that this was an error that should be rectified ASAP. Sadly, these young professionals don't (yet) get to decide on budgets. But there is definitely more solidarity out there amongst young people than you might expect when looking on the internet. I think meaningful change is possible in our lifetime as long as we don't estrange potential allies by venting our frustrations on them.

Quix_Nix · 2021-03-10T09:24:45+00:00

Office on Men's health, could be part of a new ERA sorta thang

Title	Men's life expectancy
Author	TheTinMenBlog
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Comments	44
Date	March 9, 2021 3:14 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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