Nature, Not Just Nurture
Thursday, October 13, 2005
It is only right that the Sex Discrimination Commissioner is showing an interest in men's health. Health spending on men is way short of that on longer-lived women.
Ms Goward is right too in saying that masculinity shortens the average male life-span. However this is not only because of how masculinity is 'traditionally defined'. it is also because of how masculinity naturally is. Nature provides risk-takers to handle perilous situations.
Femocrats operate primary schooling on the assumption that male behaviour is purely an issue of acculturation. This is sharply disproven by the grim fact that the vast majority of school children on mood-altering drugs are - and always will be - boys.
Some of Pru's advice is useful. But let's not glibly say the cure for men's problems is that they should behave like women.
Philip O'Carroll