Posted: Nov 13, 2014 5:49 am
Sendraks wrote:DarthHelmet86 wrote:
Please tell me you meant something else with "if it were an issue" other than men having shorter lifespans is not a problem and should be ignored. Something like "mens shorter lifespans is not an argument for women having it better than men because...".
Oh definitely the latter.
I work in a field where we're all about improving both the lifespan and quality of life for everyone. We've seen the average lifespan, for both sexes, improve considerably over the past century and yet still the gap in length of life remains, despite all the advances in healthcare.
The end result is that women still live longer than men, but those additional years of life hardly confer any sort of significant advantage to women. It's not as if we're seeing the female octogenarian workforce as a powerhouse of industry in the absence of competition men of a similar age.
Instead what we see is old women. Growing sicker, weaker and poorer. Many of them alone because their loved one died years ago. A curious "advantage" this longer lifespan.
This is not how life expectancy is measured. Men die more often than women at every age. In the womb, as babies and adults of every age. In addition to this, women are also likely to live longer than men.
You suggesting that life somehow allows advantage to be gained, but I se life as an end in itself as long as it has quality. If you are not alive you have no opportunity whatever unless you believe in life after death. I do not see that there is a difference in the latter years of either gender in terms of the degrading quality of life, illness as they approach the end. Since this is the case, we can assume that women will generally get more years where the quality is OK.
You are also arguing that when your loved ones die, it is worse for the one left alive. THis sounds a bit like Hillary Clinton's view that women are the real victims when men get killed in war because they are left alive to suffer. If we assume that dead people do not suffer as do the living, if life was so bad for these'victims ' of war they would end their lives.