I was interested in the figures R91 compiled. So i looked up the details for most of them.
OSHA of course published detailed data for workplace related injury, which includes falls from scaffolding, agricultural and ranching accidents and death from inhalants in the workplace. Despite dramatic increases in opiate abuse on the job, workplace injuries have decreased to less than 1% in 2017. In other words, fewer than 1 in a hundred workers now suffers workplace injuries in the US. The statistics OSHA provides though, lists all 263 countries of the world, and surprisingly, for most countries they are pretty close to American levels. Men fall from heights, get trampled by horses, have farm equipment accidents, get into truck crashes, refuse to wear face masks ---- all over the world. Women generally ARE more timid: women do not as frequently step to dangerous unsupported heights to yell, "I'm king of the woooooorrrrllllddddd." As they then fall to their deaths. So there is that. There is also the facts that these higher risk occupations pay more money, and are typically male-dominated and/or unionized. Window-washers, long-distance truck drivers, cowboys, farm workers (except or laborers who pick crops), heavy equipment operators routinely prohibit women from holding those jobs because of union and safety considerations. I have driven a cab as the only female cabbie in a company run by men and Zi am here to tell you, they make it hard on and woman. They screw you over every chance they get and they make you feel terrible for even having the nerve to want to work there.
Back to R91's facts.
Lethal Workplace accidents do occur 10 times more frequently for males than females. In part it is self-selecting for occupational requirements. In part it is wage based. When long-distance truk driving is auromated with only a few low-paying jobs remaining, women will makes inroadse into the career paths at much reduced compensation. And human accident rates will undoubtedly decline as well.
What about murder rates? Yes it is true that the majority of murder victims in the US (i.e., 78%) are male. As are the vast mjority of gun-owners, drug dealers and criminals. Accounting for the disproportionate number of violent offenders in the equally disproportionately male prison population. Surprise, surprise, men are more violent than women. R91 implied there is a component of chivalry in this statistic that is imply not there. Men are not dying at elevated rates because they stepped in front of a gun to orotect the mother of his children. They are dying because they enter into a lot of drug deals, rob liquor stores, and kidnap child sex slaves. Interesting statistic: more pregnant women in the US as murder victims at the hands of the fathers of their babies than die giving birth. In fact it is the leading cause of death amongst pregnant women in the US.
Suicide? It's true. Men commit suicide at roughly three times the rate of women. As a geneticist (i am driving the cab part-time for a vacation fund), i am fascinated by this, as the genetics of depression are becoming ever more finely elucidated. Is this a biological risk factor? Are males programmed to do themselves in?
Doubtful. Most increases in suiide rates become disproportionately male after age 60.
R91 seemed to make the argument that the hard-working Marlboro man of yesteryear romances gets the shaft, so to speak, and at every turn. I think that's wrong. Testosterone makes people assholes in a multitude of ways: makes them go to war, take unnecessary chances with their safety, develop insane jealousy and murderous impulses, and then who knows.? Do themselves in when all expectations have failed.
In any case, women may be selfish and greedy, but they are clearly not, in general (with some excptions, to be sure) not the recipients of gallant male largesse.
