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- Jan 6, 2019
because Carlin says that there are more women on the planet despite all the shit they go through which means they’re tougher
Bad science from Carlin. Males have lower life expectancy as a whole because of several factors. Conflict, more likely to die by violence, and increased susceptibility to some (by no means all) diseases. Obviously the relative contribution of those factors varies with time and place. It doesn’t mean women are ‘tougher.’ Women are on the whole physically weaker than men, but they are also smaller and thus more likely to survive periods of low food availability, less likely to be combatants, etc. Nature compensates by making the ratio at birth a bit skewed towards boys and it evens out as you go through life. It’s just incorrect to say men are less tough, it’s a complex and multi factor issue.
Some places do have very skewed demographics- India and China now have a big excess of males due to selective female infanticide. The migration crisis in Europe has led to an increase in young males of certain age groups. Some Arab gulf states have really uneven demographics due to guest workers.
If you google population pyramids you get a good overview - some of the animated ones are really interesting, as are the ones for Europe showing the effects of ww1 and 2.