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Let us assume you have come bouncing into the world, a brand new human male, complete with all your equipment.
It may seem, even to the casual observer, that you are well fitted out, and that you have obvious attributes that your sister does not.
Chances are, too, that you will be larger and heavier, which may lead you to believe that you are also stronger and more durable.
This, unfortunately, is not the case.
As a human male you are the weaker of the two sexes, until now doomed to poorer health and to an earlier death.
The figures are clear and convincing. In the United States the life expectancy of women is 71 years, of men 65 Vi. Women recover from diseases more easily and frequently, are physically superior to men in almost every way. They are sixteen times less likely to have color blindness, seven times less likely to have hysteria, eight times less likely to stutter, immune to hemophilia, far less subject to epilepsy and many other diseases.
Mentally, too, women are much more stable. You have
only to take a swing through our mental hospitals to see that male patients far outnumber females.
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