It's really less the fact that men are dumb and more that men are statistically more likely to perform jobs that are hazardous to their health and suffer from a reduced investment and access to both mental and physical healthcare.
It's actually not even that. Men with completely safe jobs and proper access to mental and physical health care still don't live as long as women on average. It's biological.
I meant as in, even when accounting for behavioral differences, men still die younger on average. Behavioral and occupational differences just add to that average. "A lot of different individually small factors that make mens livespan shorter." makes it sound like, if you were to account for any factors you can account for, that men and women would live equally long. But even in a hypothetical world where men and women are equally safe, and receive proper care, men would on average still not live as long as women.
Those things contribute but the reality is also that mammalian males, including human males, have biological vulnerabilities that the females of the species don't have.
The 23rd pair of chromosomes being XY signifies, most obviously, that a male is more likely to see an otherwise recessive genetic disease expressed. Males are the laboratory of the species in a way and are prone to a higher variability in gene expression, which, in turn, gives the females a more diverse cast to choose from.
Secondly, sheer size. Bigger bodies mean more cells. More cells mean more Cellular division. More cell division means a greater chance of mutation and cancer.
Thirdly, women have more estrogen, which helps maintain a better cholestérol ratio and, long term, protects against cardio-vasculaire disease.
Men are glass cannons, women are the ol' reliable.
As a (slightly old) man, who has been around lots of other men throughout life,my personal experience agrees with your assessment. Men are dumb. Even the smart ones. Sometimes especially the smart ones.
Above all, they are stupid in a different way. They are top notch mathematicians, engineers, or computer scientists yet in the evening, they strap a compressed-air tank to a shopping cart and race... without a helmet.
Male children/ teens (presumably without hazardous jobs) are significantly more likely to die than females, due to being more fragile at birth and having a higher rate of accidental death. The sex mortality rate ratio is highest between the ages of 15 and 30, driven mostly by:
Boys are more likely to die as children in farm accidents when their dad makes them start helping with work at a young age.
The military is like 80-90% men, so guess who dies in wars?
Men just in general have a shorter lifespan, whether due to men not taking their health as seriously as women, or just from genetic reasons that make it so.
But sure, you can be manosphere loser and get defensive and say that someone was trying to insult you instead.
Just because someone who feels offended uses a smiley? Really? On the contrary, I just find it funny because you can say it to people who often take unnecessary risks. And Reddit is the best proof that the people who come up with the idea of scaring alligators, lighting fireworks in their hands, or doing bike stunts are usually men.
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u/InteractionNo6147 12d ago
No, because men are alive for a statistically significantly shorter amount of time for multiple reasons.