Patriarchal Attitudes, Practices Explain Half the Discrepancy . . .

[MountainLaurel]

Systematic male dominance - patriarchy - explains half the discrepancy in life expectancy between the sexes, suggests research spanning four continents in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

The researchers base their findings on a comparison of the rates of female murders and male death rates from all causes in 51 countries across Europe, Australasia, Asia, North and South America.

Rates of violence against women are used to indicate the extent of societal male dominance over women, otherwise known as patriarchy.

The wealth of a country, as indicated by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per head of the population, was also taken into consideration, as socioeconomic factors are strongly linked to health.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=30821&nfid=rssfeeds

[ismnotwasm]

1. What doesn't kill you

Makes you stronger, evidently. There must be a correlation between male rage expressing itself as violence toward women, and possibly something like, say, cardiovascular disease.
So, then widespread hush hush societal acceptance of this violent rage kills 'em off huh? It wouldn't surprise me one bit. Rarely have I heard men talk about what widespread sexist attitudes and violence toward women does to them psychologically-- individually or as a group. Mostly I see a kind of head in the sand mentality. Even if it happens to thier sisters, daughters, mothers, whatever, the anger against the violence is directed toward the individual who committed the crime-- or sometimes the victim.