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I know I'm just one data point, but everywhere I look, family, friends, women live healthier than men. My father smokes 3 packs a day, drinks, eats at night etc
by PunchTornado 8y ago
I know I'm just one data point, but everywhere I look, family, friends, women live healthier than men. My father smokes 3 packs a day, drinks, eats at night etc.
Add this to violence, murder rates, great hesitance to go to the doctor by men, higher prison population where you cannot live healthy etc. and you have the explanation ready, no need to look for a biological reason.
Plus, comparing to the other animals doesn't have great significance. Male animals are more aggressive, have to fight for mating and die.
- WalterSear 8y agoMen are, on the whole, also provided much less social support and education in handling negative emotions. So it would be understandable that they would perform more extreme forms of self-medication. We know that related constructs vary more across cultures (ie - that present variance in the levels of social integration) than between the genders, which suggests that the chief causes of the difference here are more social than biological.