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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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"
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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we talked abt this elsewhere but when men's & women's social roles normally lead to death at the same rate, it might make sense to call mem "death subjects" but its misleading to call men "death objects" as a contrast to "sex objects"
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