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Health & Fitness

Is it time for affirmative action for men?

There is an under-reported gender crisis throughout the western world that is also reflected in New Hampshire. Why isn't government doing something to rectify the imbalance?

Despite the fact that more human male babies than female babies are born in nature, there are more women in the western world than men. How can this be? It is because men die quicker.

From the Nashua Telegraph article:

"More male babies are born each year in most of the world – the ratio in New Hampshire maternity wards has long been 105 boys per 100 girls, generally considered the natural ratio – but males die at higher rates than females at all ages. That’s why retirement communities are filled with women."

At the least, governments should be funding public health campaigns directed at men's health. Women should be encouraged to enter combat at higher rates and to take riskier jobs. More women should own guns. Women need to drink more. Men should get higher rates of welfare and disability payments. Men should get college preferences. Men should be encouraged to marry younger and divorce less.

Governments should also fund more studies to find out why men have higher rates of autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, and practically every other childhood disorder.

Men should abandon their "protector" instinct because that predisposes them to risky behaviors. More men should opt out of aggressive sports like football.

Government needs to get in the game to address this inequality. Where are they on this issue? Men also need to wise up on their own and allow women to die as quickly as they do.

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