[UA] Re: [UA][OT] UA unintenionally sexist? (LONG!)

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 08:53 PM 09/02/2000 +1000, you wrote:
>Others, for example that men live only 90% as long as women in those
>societies where lifespan is a function of technology, never get attention,
>because women never stand up for men in them.  The closest things we have to
>remedial projects on male death rates are prostate research and services for
>lonely elderly women.  8)

Dude, estrogen cleans your arteries (IIRC).  It's not a matter of social
bias.  Women live longer because they have fewer heart attacks because the
primary female hormone has a very beneficent side effect.  (I think.  But I
could be wrong.)

-G.
"I know people who have gotten laid in real life because of Everquest." 
	-- For my money, the scariest sentence John Tynes ever wrote.

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