Are Men the Weaker Sex After All?
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 21:00
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http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/12/are-men-the-weaker-sex-after-all
Men are dying younger than their female counterparts and of eminently preventable and treatable diseases, according to the Men's Health Forum, an organization in the U.K. that aims to improve mortality rates in men.
Men are more likely than women to die of cancer, stroke, obesity-related diseases and heart disease. Much of this may have to do with lifestyle: as a group, men drink, eat and smoke more than women and get less exercise. Additionally 76% of deaths by suicide are committed by men — not because more are attempted, but because more succeed.
The chief executive of Men's Health Forum believes that making health care more "male friendly" is the key to improving rates of medical testing in men.
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...we're smarter, too.
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Best you got?!!!
"Men is dumb!"
HAHAHAHAHHAHHA
Oh, please... keep your posts coming...
I havn't laughed this hard in a long time....
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"
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Well, nothing there actually suggests they're weaker.
Can't argue with the intelligence angle, though.
ETA: And there goes Wulfie, taking the whole gender a few notches down on that pole with his mere presence.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Yeah, if it were anything to go on, Wulf's responses to the last few threads I've started would nail the question about brains.
Does he really have nothing to say at all, or is he just drunk, I wonder?
As to men; I saw a study once where it said their worse health is due in part to them not seeking medical help...both because of being too busy and because it's viewed as "weak" to do so. Might have a point there...Jim fits that profile PERFECTLY!!
And exactly HOW do they intend to make medicine more "men friendly"???
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...we're smarter, too.
I teach children of ages 4-14 and have got to say, girls are so much easier to deal with, especially little girls. They're so sweet and curious and less likely to spontaneously shout or get up and run in opposite directions towards opposing exits (classrooms with small children should not have 4 wide open entryways). They are just, so much more teachable, as a whole, on almost every way.
Sometimes I wonder if we are genetically pre-programed to be stupid as boys. I still have hope for our intelligence as men, but far as children as concerned, in my new and limited experiences, girls are much easier to teach. They seem to have a longer attention span and are less prone to throwing things.
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Originally posted by Niki2:
Yeah, if it were anything to go on, Wulf's responses to the last few threads I've started would nail the question about brains.
Does he really have nothing to say at all, or is he just drunk, I wonder?
You know, believe it or not, drunk had never even occurred to me. I just figure, given the content and tone of his usual posts - I just think he's really, really on the dim side.
But he could very well be drunk, too.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by TheHappyTrader:Quote:
...we're smarter, too.
I teach children of ages 4-14 and have got to say, girls are so much easier to deal with, especially little girls. They're so sweet and curious and less likely to spontaneously shout or get up and run in opposite directions towards opposing exits (classrooms with small children should not have 4 wide open entryways). They are just, so much more teachable, as a whole, on almost every way.
Sometimes I wonder if we are genetically pre-programed to be stupid as boys. I still have hope for our intelligence as men, but far as children as concerned, in my new and limited experiences, girls are much easier to teach. They seem to have a longer attention span and are less prone to throwing things.
As a fellow teacher (though my range is more 14-18) I would tend to agree. I have plenty of very intelligent boys in class, but it's much more difficult to get them to stay on-task and engaged. Not that all the girls are model students to be sure, but by and large, they are a bit more easy to manage.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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When I was student teaching last year, I remember at faculty meetings (or faculty beatings as we called them) they were really pushing to try and improve minority male math and reading scores on the all mighty standardized tests (minority females were doing just fine). Course, what that meant for us music and art folk was that they were gonna be yanked out of our classes for extra time with math and the like. 'Cause, you know, extra time was the issue, not quality of instruction...
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Wow... the drunk angle is a new shot.. nice.
Sure, Im about to go out to the clubs... but no. I don't have to drink before I go. I know the owners... so I get my drinks for free.
Just laughing at the blatant ignance shown... hell, the blatant desperation.
Anyways. Gotta start gettin clubed up, so to speak. (That means a shower and shave for the hippies... read up on it.)
lol
Its Friday and things are starting to get better.
Time to partay!!!!
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Okay, wait a minute. I have to be fair here (aside from the fact that it was just a tease in the first place). Saying boys are harder to teach isn't an indication of their intelligence, you guys know that. But maybe someone should look into it, that there might be something hormonal or genetic that makes them have the shorter attention spans and have more difficulty learning, or sitting still to learn? Probably a dozen studies, no doubt, but nothing being DONE about it, if I were to take a guess...
I definitely don't see it as a measure of inate intelligence. Given you three are all from the teaching profession, you have my sympathy (that takes GUTS these days, not to mention being willing to live like a pauper and get no respect to boot!). But you ARE viewing it from a teaching standpoint, and I think we all know (well, those of us who aren't just drunk or stupid) that difficulty learning doesn't equate to lower IQ, right?
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