Men closing gender life expectancy gap is "troubling trend", according to National Geographic.

CrossHook · 2013-04-04T14:16:59+00:00

Men are living longer and feminists consider this part of "the war on women."

dungone · 2013-04-04T17:26:45+00:00

This is very common feminist propaganda. It's based on the quack-science assumption that men must inherently live shorter lives and therefore closing the gap by any amount is by definition misogyny. Their subsequent logic isn't wrong, they're not reading the data incorrectly, they simply just don't believe that men should live anywhere near as long as women. To them, that's the natural order. IOW the bigotry is even worse than you might think.

StandsInRefuse · 2013-04-04T18:01:37+00:00

Now that some women are working full time like men and face the pressure and stress that we traditionally had to exclusively deal with, of course the gap will close. Men aren't predisposed to dying younger than women, it's just our environment causes us to.

LoftyDog · 2013-04-04T15:32:51+00:00

We need gender equality... Unless it's men living longer. Apparently deminishing returns are "troubling."

BrutishElf · 2013-04-04T15:18:04+00:00

The article didn't say anything about men living longer being troubling, just that womens' life expectancy isn't rising as much as mens'.

I don't see any feminism here, just numbers.

EDIT: I understand all the comments below, it just seems people are dwelling on the word "troubling" and applying it to the wrong set of ideas.

notcaptainkirk · 2013-04-04T19:20:15+00:00

Yeesh, read the bloody article:

Though men's life spans have increased by 4.6 years since 1989, women have gained only 2.7 years, perhaps because a larger percentage of women have lacked adequate treatment for high blood pressure and cholesterol. "This is a wake-up call," says study co-author Ali Mokdad.

The bold bit is what is troubling, and I agree - your country is absolute rubbish when it comes to healthcare.

Ma99ie · 2013-04-04T19:16:00+00:00

Why not use feminist "boy crisis" analysis on this situation:

"This is not bad a story of women doing worse, it's a good story of men doing better."

Ma99ie · 2013-04-04T19:07:06+00:00

Don't we, as a country, spend a lot more money on women's health care, even if you take out child bearing health care?

sizzletron · 2013-04-04T18:34:40+00:00

Did women seriously think accepting the mantle of being power breadwinners and absolutely everything that might entail WOULDN'T have an effect on their longevity? Or that once it was apparent that this might be the case, don't accept how hard men work, or have worked hitherto, instead install some sort of special remediation for women? Sounds like a certain demo needs one more tiny leg up to get over hump day. That's it, they swear.

MattClark0994 · 2013-04-04T22:04:39+00:00

I believe it is women who have something like 10 NATIONAL health offices dedicated to their health (men have 0), must be nice.

7wap · 2013-04-04T23:38:19+00:00

research shows men are HALF of DV victims so women get ALL the federal dollars for abuse while men get..JAIL for BEING abused.

Jail's far more expensive. Men once against getting all the privilege/s.

ignatiusloyola · 2013-04-04T14:25:13+00:00

We should really make this a much bigger deal. Anyone interested in starting a letter writing/email writing campaign to voice our disgust with the article?

2013-04-04T22:19:17+00:00

When boys' grades fall to the point that they're equal to girls', it's considered a "victory" for women.

When men start to live as long as women, it's considered a "troubling trend" and perhaps women are not receiving adequate healthcare.

firex726 · 2013-04-04T15:18:18+00:00

Glad to see the comments and tearing into her for writing such crap,and well before it got posted here.

thenewplatypus · 2013-04-04T23:06:37+00:00

Alright guys, I feel like this is getting a bit blown out of proportion. I'm pretty positive that this article is actually just poorly written and the "troubling trend" is that they perceive the cause of the lower increase in women's lives is due to undertreatment of certain diseases. I'm almost positive it isn't because they're upset at the fact that men's expectancy increased more rapidly than women's (although this could be a bias and misinterpretation of data on the researcher's behalf).

pantaloonsofJUSTICE · 2013-04-05T04:04:39+00:00

Doesn't the article say this is troubling because of a possible lack of certain types of medical treatments being as common for women? How is NatGeo being sexist? Is there an element to this I don't understand?

dam072000 · 2013-04-05T05:02:06+00:00

This map of women's mortality rate change seems like a useful side by side. I'm not sure when this is of though.

Colcut · 2013-04-04T15:41:45+00:00

More the fact that the one gender's life expectancy is increasing faster than the other I'd assume.

Zeddikus · 2013-04-04T16:03:11+00:00

This is pretty pathetic. Oh noes, the menz live longer.

Greyfeld · 2013-04-04T16:55:16+00:00

This isn't feminist propaganda, it's somebody making stupid assertions based on a faulty understanding of numbers.

If anything, the age gap is closing because fewer men are dying in the workplace than ever before, due to improved technology and improved safety procedures.

sublbc · 2013-04-04T13:51:54+00:00

Amanda Fiegl shouild be fired on the spot for posting this disgusting feminist propaganda.

Shame on National Geographic. I will never watch any of their show or buy any of their magazines ever again.

I will also tell others to do the same.

Title	Men closing gender life expectancy gap is "troubling trend", according to National Geographic.
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