People say women are a minority; but in fact, it is men who are the smaller group. More interestingly, men are not born as a minority – as for every 100 female births there are actually 105 male births. But this male surplus doesn’t stay for long, as over the course of a life time, the number of men is slowly eroded away until the sex ratio shifts. Yup, in adulthood there are only 97 American men for every 100 women. So what happened? Why do men experience higher mortality rates in every age group, and have an overall death rate 1.4 times higher than women? Why has a problem, so large it literally alters the tectonics of a nation’s population, been so readily ignored? Why are men’s higher mortality rates so often waved of with, “well that’s just the way it is!” Perhaps… men are not the ubiquitously privileged gender you’ll hear described, but the disposable one? I mean isn’t early death a bit more deserving of advocacy and investigation than women having too few pockets, or Babie’s super cool day out? Are the solutions to men’s issues more serious and complex than social media coddling, and meagre calls for “talk” and male tears? What about men’s early death? How do we save our men and boys? ~ US Death Rate Population reference bureau NIH Funding  The New Scientist  Images by Hu Chen, Ben Sweet, MT Elglasseur #menshealth #mensmentalhealth #malesuicideawareness

2023-08-05