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>> Start with men suffering ~90% of workplace fatalities?

Well, given that we’re talking about labour…

And how many men die in childbirth? Men have a choice to take dangerous jobs. Women don’t have a choice to have medical complications during labour.



>>>And how many men die in childbirth?

100% of the males who get naturally pregnant. Ask a silly question, get a silly answer. It's almost like there are biological differences between men and women, and that these organisms are largely optimized for distinct roles in the human system.

>>>Men have a choice to take dangerous jobs.

If men flat-out refused to do dangerous work....our entire industrialized economy would collapse, because at the end of the day all of it is built on top of natural resource extraction. Are you suggesting that all those men digging rare earth metals out of the ground should just #learntocode?

>>>Women don’t have a choice to have medical complications during labour.

But they DO have choice to not get pregnant at all, right? If men are accountable for their choice of profession and the inherent risks, are women not accountable for their reproductive choices and inherent risks? If reducing (obviously gender-skewed) labor complications is a valid societal concern, than shouldn't reducing (also gender-skewed) workplace fatalities also be a valid societal concern? I'm not really sure what you are arguing here with the pregnancy angle.


> 100% of the males who get naturally pregnant.

Almost, some trans men can get pregnant. But I am being pedantic.


> And how many men die in childbirth?

I'd say about 50% of the neonatal death rate.

:)

Seriously though, US has an unexpectedly high maternal death rate for a western country: https://www.statista.com/chart/23541/maternal-mortality-deve...




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