[EdnaMode]

Does this mean that women can play men's sports and win?

[BushCountry]

Any jokes about women biology are not funny! Period.

[bboop]

harumph not true. Dr. Muscles at our house opens the jars and does the heavy lifting that I could never do.

[rktman]

That must be why there are so many that pass SEAL training and Ranger school.

[nickcarraway]

Hmmm. Depending on what they mean, isn’t it obvious? Men take riskier jobs, engage in riskier pursuits. (Including downright stupid ones) Anybody remember what happened on the Titanic?

[arthurus]

This observation was in my Physiology textbook in 11th grade. For PC purposes I suppose it is NEW.

[Leep]

So,women have been exploiting,ey?

#me also

[hinckley buzzard]

Silly article. Women have had a greater life expectancy than men for as far back as anyone has measured. Nothing new.

[pabianice]

Possibly

[beergarden]

TRUE.

I’ve seen it. My GF is stronger than me when she sees a shoe sale at the mall. I cant stop her from taking my credit card and maxing them out afterwards. Makes PMS look like a Disney movie.

[doorgunner69]

Define “Life threatening crisis”

[FlingWingFlyer]

ROTFL. Satire?

[chuckee]

Good!Draft them. Millennial men will stay home and have the babies.

[bar sin·is·ter]

Men have historically spent their energies protecting women from danger, therefore subjecting themselves to the bulk of the risk and dangerous activity that can result in fatality.

And as someone else just pointed out.... we also have a tendency to do more stupid sh*t, we have more “hold muh beer” moments...

[caligatrux]

The study by Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists of the United States of America reveals that women are actually more likely to survive a life threatening crisis than men.

Did they control for the fact that men are more likely to sacrifice, face danger, etc., in these situations so that the women may survive?

[A Navy Vet]

This is news? I’ve known it most of my 68 years on this rock just through observation. Wonder how much grant money they got for this startling revelation?

[lakeman]

Sure we men go hunting with primitive weapons, cut and haul wood, domesticate wild animals all of which are life threatening.
A woman stays in the cave and makes sammiches......

[rdl6989]

Is this why women live longer?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Well, duh. Men have an incomplete set of chromosomes. That alone is a pretty hefty biological handicap.

[Steve_Seattle]

The author conflates two completely different kinds of strength: (1) the ability to do physically demanding labor; and (2) resistance to disease and deprivation. It’s long been known that men (in general) are physically stronger in the former sense, and “weaker” in the latter. The fact that women tend to live longer than men has been an actuarial assumption forever.

[truth_seeker]

In my family women live longer. Same with my wife’s family.

The men do fight, and win the wars however.

Yes, down through history there have been some female-warriors, but this is the exception,, not the rule.

Boudicca, Joan of Arc, but still the exception.