Wil Wheaton to MRAs: You’re idiots. MRAs: Yeah, well, you’re a mangina! And women actually like you! And your narration is bad!

Or maybe it’s because men spend more time in prison.

Ba-da-boom!

No, no, the causality goes the other direction.

The issue with life expectancy is that it is an average, and so the longer one lives, the longer one is expected to live, because mortality sources and associated probabilities change with age. And if you live to be 75, then clearly you didn’t die at a younger age. But this is a mathematical argument and I don’t expect many MRAs to be able to understand it.

And, of course, shorter male life expectancy has *nothing* to do with the choices that males make that place them in greater harm’s way from avoidable causes of death: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781916/

One of the interesting conclusions:

These findings suggest that violence and use of firearms, as well as drug and alcohol use, are important contributors to the sex difference in mortality and that public health efforts targeting these factors could dramatically close the sex gap in life expectancy. Men are much more likely than women to use drugs and alcohol and approximately 75% of homicides are related to the use of drugs or alcohol or the selling of illicit drugs. Furthermore, about half of all deaths from motor vehicle accidents among men are related to the use of alcohol, compared to 33% among women. Although women are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with major depression and three times more likely to attempt suicide than men, men are more likely to successfully commit suicide. This difference occurs partly because men are more likely to use effective methods such as firearms or hanging, and tend to use drugs and alcohol, which increase impulsive behavior.

There would be a certain karmic fairness to a female politician getting sacked for inappropriately texting a young male staffer.

2) Feminists proceed to separate politicians into discrete categories by nothing other than their genitalia (who cares about policies, right? And that’s totally not sexist of course).

Only anti-trans feminists reduce gender to genitalia, not trans-supportive ones. You won’t find many anti-trans folks here. In any case, distinguishing between men and women is not sexist, and feminists don’t argue that their gender literally determines their views completely. It’s just that, in a society in which men have power for being men, they are more likely to work for policies that favor men, so the division is relevant for political analysis.

3) Feminists compare numbers on each side and notice more men than women. [applause]
4) Feminists cry “SEXISM! Misogyny, Patriarchy! Men and women are EQUAL. There should be as many women in politics as men and anything else is sexist.
5) Non feminist appears and asks “ok then what about the disparity in, say, lifespan, or prison sentencing or education? If men and women are equal, shouldn’t those be equal too?”

That’s not what feminists mean by “women are equal” in that context. It means that women are equally capable in the political sphere. Straw man.

Really no need to thank me. You’re MORE than welcome 😀

No need to thank a smug dipshit like you. You have nothing interesting or valuable to say here.

Now shoo, kitt33.

@Brooked, just because Kitt33 is posting from Germany doesn’t mean he is German. Sounds more like a US-an currently located there, to me.

Oh wow, that was some cute ideas about how class trumps anything.

Gee, it’s not like I became poor due to mental illness snowballing into disability into unemployment into homelessness or anything. And I’m sure those things had nothing to do with my being trans! (Though that’s complicated and massively subsumed in the multi.)

Nope, class doesn’t interact with ANYTHING.

What a priceless little wanker.

Good riddance. Skeevy little creep.

Typical, innit … they scream about BIOTRUTHS!!! and how things they claim are biology are cast-iron reasons why nothing should ever change. But mention something that’s 1) genuine biology and 2) isn’t in men’s favour, and it’s all frothrage about how it’s women’s fault.

I am sooooo surprised.

Absolutely.

And in the event you escape the Canadian FemoGynocracy, you’ll find yourself in the grip of their overlords, the Furrinati.

TAKE THE RED KIBBLE!

The idea that not getting laid as often as you’d like and with women as hot as you’d like is the greatest social rights issue of our time will never stop being funny.

This is #1 on the list of BROcialist issues. Gad, I have met those dudes way too often in my life.

But it has to be lingerie from the time the Constitution was written. Also the personal hygien of that era.

And body hair standards too. 🙂

It would be extra funny if the Constitution era woman these guys suddenly found on their doorstep was Abigail Adams.