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Re:Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year by clmul on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:08AM (#21418985)
It's fairly well-known that there is more medical knowledge about men, and women are affected in different ways by diseases, about which more knowledge is needed.

See for example this article: https://www.ft.com/content/7864ae80-9597-11e8-95f8-8640db906...

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Re:Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year by 50656E6973 on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:18AM (#21419111)
Indeed. And yet life expectancy is still lower for men, and is getting worse. Can we not talk about that for a moment?
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Re:Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year by clmul on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:57AM (#21419496)
Sure we can, but I don't think it's very productive to start arguing that society doesn't care about men's issues. I don't immediately see what society has to do with the lower life expectancy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Sex_difference...

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Re:Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year by benchaney on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:33PM (#21421500)
> and is getting worse

You missed a pretty important part. I don’t see how that could be the result of anything other than society?

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