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[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (8 children)

https://news.yale.edu/2006/09/26/elevated-testosterone-kills-nerve-cells

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2048656/

And testosterone kills all the other organs too. This is why women live longer, and why their hair doesn't fall out.

[–]MarkTwainiac 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

If you think women's hair doesn't fall out, you are basing your entire view of women on pre-menopausal women and women in robust good health. After menopause, major hair loss is the norm for female people. Same goes for women with many health conditions.

Moreover, women don't live longer coz we have less T than men. It's coz we have XX chromosomes.

Female people are not simply males with lower T, or with male bodies that "boobs and tubes" have been added to as you seem to think.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Female people are not simply males with lower T, or with male bodies that "boobs and tubes" have been added to as you seem to think.

They do both develop initially as neuter, and the male reproductive system and the female reproductive system are almost entirely homologous.

Moreover, women don't live longer coz we have less T than men.

Testosterone might be associated with cardiovascular issues. Women are also smaller - within a species, smaller individuals tend to live longer (it's the opposite between species - larger species tend to have longer lifespans).

[–]MezozoicGay 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Men have around 20-30% faster metabolism, faster oxygenization of blood and body, bigger hearts and lungs (if same size and weight as women), faster blood delivery (while women can deliver more blood, just not as fast - I suppose for pregnancy), bigger percentage of red blood cells and faster regeneration and faster life-cycles of cells.

This means that body is oxidizing faster, cells are using chromosomal resource faster.

Only those facts are enough for us to die faster than women. And then we add low payment jobs/military which are exhausing body even faster, bigger risk of heart diseases because of bigger hearts, male on male violence - and we will get number even lower.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Same thing, it still makes us miserable and have shorter lives just so we can be a little bit stronger

[–]MezozoicGay 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Being different does not mean being miserable.

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