It’s because more information is encoded on the X chromosome then the Y, having two copies of the X chromosome makes it less likely for a mutation in that chromosome to cause cancer because there’s another non-defective copy to potentially diminish the mutation’s effect.
However stupid shit like that probably sways the needle as well.
The Y chromosome is also deteriorating over time as it gets passed down with errors and doesn’t have a backup copy nor relevant genes to swap with, and men have less robust immune systems (iirc partially because of testosterone). So that’s fun.
To call the natural process of mutation, literally one of the requirements for any genetic evolutionary progress, “deteriorating” is, at best, short sighted. Most mutations do nothing, most of the ones that do something don’t occur in the one sperm that makes it into the ovum, and most of those that do something and make it into the ovum cause an early termination before birth. Some of those that get through all of these hurdles are the ones that cause random genetic variation and increased diversity, without which we actually DO get things like Hemophilia or other sex-linked issues going rampant in any given gene pool. Evolution takes a LONG time to work, but it requires wet and moldable clay to sculpt.
I mean it’s literally shrinking over time… deteriorating. It will very likely eventually become useless, and die out.
I guess you can call that evolution if you want… it’s certainly a selection pressure, anyway.
https://www.earth.com/news/will-men-disappear-the-y-chromosome-is-constantly-shrinking/
Thank you for the clarification! I was wondering if you meant literal shrinking, like telomeres, but over generations. I retract my former complaint!
But did he succeeded? I have to know! What is the end of the story???
It’s Top Gear, so it failed spectacularly.
On that terrible disappointment
So it’s not coming on then?
peak british comedy
Ambitious but rubbish
And on that terrible disappointment…
It was sadly not dry enough.
Nah, it was damp.
Yeah that thing with the lighter was never gonna do anything, but I’ll bet it sounded exciting in the commercials. I wouldn’t know, I haven’t had TV in like 8 years.
“I’ve broken Stalin’s house… I’m going to the Gulags”
Ha ha. But seriously men’s lives are just worth less than women’s so society as a whole spends them much more lightly.
I guess in the sense that men are the default for people sent into war while women very rare are. Dunno what other examples there are
No fault divorce, the man vs bear argument, child support laws, alimony laws, lack of support for abuse against men, etc. There’s plenty to show we don’t value men as much as women.
I don’t understand the significance of the first one
No fault divorce? Just that women initiate 70% of divorces, and they can divorce for any reason, including boredom. And then those other things I mentioned generally come into play next.
A lot of men are staying away from marriage now, and the sentiment I keep hearing is “why would I enter into a legal contract where one party is rewarded for breaking it?”
Wouldn’t it be worse to trap someone in a relationship that they aren’t enjoying? And isn’t it a sign that many women aren’t enjoying their marriage if they initiate 70% of divorces? We should look into why they aren’t happy, not force them to stay when they aren’t.
That’s a problem solving mentality. Some women are not interested in solving problems, they are interested in being excited. The high divorce rate increases with gay female couples and decreases with gay male couples.
Wouldn’t it be worse to trap someone in a relationship that they aren’t enjoying?
What you call trapped, I call commitment. We may as well just not get married then, to do the women the great honor of not trapping them. Especially if there is no upside for men.
I don’t define love by feelings in my tummy, I define it by the actions you take to put someone’s needs ahead of your own. Feelings change by the year, by the week, by the day, by the moment. No stable family will survive if it simply operates based on the whims of emotions.
This just sounds like those other things should be fixed instead of trying to find one person to assign blame to in a divorce.
Well personally, I think the vows you make when you marry should be treated as a contract. I mean it sounds as much like a verbal contract as can possibly exist. Which would make the person who breaks the contract the person at fault.
You may as well say we should get rid of all contracts in general instead of trying to find someone to blame in the event of breach. A noble sentiment, but not particularly practical.
It just seems like a lot of work for courts to try and find out which partner made the personal relationship such that it ended, how much of it was from which partner, what was the real personal life of a couple and so on. Just seems a bit ludicrous for a court to be dealing with.
Not all contracts are made equal. But I guess a simple fix would be to have “until one side wants to end the partnership” in there. Though I think isn’t that what the law already says?
So… just to be clear, if a woman really did not want to be in a marriage with you, you are saying that you would do everything in your power to force her to stay?
I personally think that marriage is a scam in the first place. I’ve witness 20 years sweethearts split after 2-3 years of marriage. Dunno what could’ve have changed after.
So I’m staying away of that shit although I’m well aware that is something important for my sweetheart. We’ll have to find a middle term someday. Maybe throw a party with the fam and call it a marriage, I dunno, something like that.
alimony laws
Are those generally gender-specific?
I think women and children first would be a similar thing
Are you saying that society treats them as worth less or that you believe they’re worth less?
