Many years ago a someone called Patrick pointed out to me that in the same way women are thought of as "sex objects", men are thought of as "death objects" and it explains so much.
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oh, in movies
I think it translates to life too. Only men can be soldiers (risk death). Then the furore over allowing women in the military: they feared male soldiers would sacrifice themselves unneccessarily to save the female ones.
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the women-living-longer thing is less than a hundred years old & it will only last until widespread antibiotic resistance. if men have a historically accurate sense that women already risk themselves for cont-of-species, that's very different from men being "death objects"
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I don’t see how differences in lifespan or that women also sometimes die relates to men being seen as death objects
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