Posted on 06/19/2013 5:26:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
... and here I always thought it was due to the stress of living with women .... [ducking]
Simple answer about why guys earlier than their wives: because they want to!
Think of all the things we do that women don’t do that ages us faster (ducking too)
Men are also tweaked for high performance. You’ll have a lot more trouble with a Ferrari than with a Ford Explorer. And, you can’t take the body back to the dealership for overhaul...not in this life, anyway.
As Alan King said in his obituary skit... “Survived by his wife.”
Fragile huh? I have a wife and a blended family with five daughters; I’m the only male. Guess what happens when one of them spots a spider in the living room. A 1/5 gram monster scares them all into a shrieking knot of femininity backing away while superman here dispatches the threat with a Kleenex.
Steve Martin to Michael Caine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels:
“We’re the weaker sex. Men don’t live as long as women.
We get more heart attacks, strokes and prostate trouble.
I say, it’s time for a change.
I say, let them give us money.
Let’s live off them for a while.”
My ex wife will live to be at least one day older than me.
BTW, if I’d shot her when I first wanted to, I’d have been out by now.
You see it (male expendability) in lots of species. It just takes one male to fertilize multiple females, so the males get the job of seeing which genes enhance survival, and which genes don't, and survivors get to pass along their genes to the females.
Women have support resources, men often have little if any.
“the ratio of males to females ... has been estimated to be from 107 to 170 males per 100 females.”
That’s one hell of an estimate...
It's God's way of giving the guy a respite before eternity really kicks in.
Did the article address the tendency of men to take more risks and/or be in riskier careers?
Why is divorce so expensive? Because its worth it.
Also we women have to do the housekeeping. :)
They mean they don’t know. The lower number is probably based on ultrasound results, the observed sex in miscarriages, and so on. The higher number is a wild guess.
My daughter saw a spider on her leg while we were in the car and yelled, “Dad! Get it!”
I slapped the spider with my bare hand (thus squishing it on her leg) and she had the gall to get mad at me!
Interesting information, from my life experience it all comes down to mental flexibility. This is looking at retirees in particular, not the other stuff the article was talking about.
Those retirees who had interests such as hobbies or the desire to take trips seem to live longest. Those who retired without any other outside life other than work all seem to have died within 18 months of retiring.
Those who actually did things with their hands or their minds rather sitting passively watching TV all tend to live longer and have more fulfilling lives.
Those who had quiet marriages aka “Drama Free” marriages also tend to live longer. I think it’s because life is more comfortable with a caring supportive spouse rather than one who isn’t.
Ya got that right. Support for men exists, but you need to hunt for it.
You can't throw a rock - at least where I live - without hitting a "Susan G Komen / Breast/Cervical/etc Cancer Survivor / Walk / 5K run / Support Group / TV Special / Promotion / Whatever" Women's group.
My former employer put an end to non-official-company-sponsored charitable promotions because every woman there had their own pet cause (that's fine) and was hitting everyone in the company up for time and money (not so fine), sometimes 2 and 3 times a week. For a time, they were more persistent than the United Way, and that's saying something.
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