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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by username90 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:23PM (#27041773)
Women have lived longer than men throughout most of history and in basically every society, so your theory doesn't hold. Childbirth was dangerous but men's work was even more dangerous.
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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by coronasaurus on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:15PM (#27042995)
Citation needed. A quick Google search on life expectancy during the middle ages tells me that men lived longer than women.
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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by daenz on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:41PM (#27043760)
Where do you see that? Every result from my quick searching is listing women as longer than men. Example: https://www.purplemotes.net/2015/08/23/medieval-life-expecta...
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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by coronasaurus on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:47PM (#27043811)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2847291?seq=1
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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by letonmorri on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:07PM (#27043983)
The ratio of older women to men: historical perspectives and cross-national comparisons

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10902048/

This paper seems to disagree heavily with you.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by coronasaurus on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:06PM (#27044452)
Just going by the abstract that you linked, that study seems to only relate to the past 100 years.

And extrapolating this to the middle ages and earlier:

In general, countries with a lower overall life expectancy had a lower number of women per 100 men aged 75+, while countries with higher overall life expectancy had a higher female to male ratio in this age group. A hundred years ago there were nearly equal numbers of women and men aged 75+ in many countries.

It doesn't seem to disagree with me at all.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by daenz on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:56PM (#27044385)
"making it to adulthood" is different than "living longer"
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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by istinetz on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:22PM (#27043064)
There are A LOT of claims itt, and not nearly enough sources for any of it.

It feels like you're right, but what "feels right" turns out to be wrong pretty often.

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