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Gender, climate change and natural disasters : Comments

By Kellie Tranter, published 4/2/2008

The effects, direct and indirect, of natural disasters are much greater for women compared with men.

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I can’t understand how an underwater earthquake is related to climate change. Perhaps in a feminist geography class it would be.

If the author was knowledgeable about demographics and populations, then they would know that in the vast majority of countries, the average life expectancy of a male is less than that of the average female.

This is regardless of the politics of that country, or the socioeconomic background of that country. So there is something very unnatural happening there.

If feminist were concerned about equality (?), then they would be interested in increasing the average life expectancy of males, but I have never heard a feminist so much as mention this (not once).
Posted by HRS, Saturday, 16 February 2008 10:42:33 AM
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sjf,

As you correctly said, men react when it comes to the gender war and you have inadvertantly exposed the inherent bias in the dynamic of its dialogue.

Firstly, this style of engagement was more or less established by women, whereby you always turn another's concerns/issues around to reflect your own agenda. Its basically a flawed strartegy in the hands of men due to a biased perception of gender. The tendency is to come to a womans defence, particularly when under seige by a male, even if its only verbal, in fact especially so. And the most likely champion is gonna be a man. You know, fairly tales, vilian/damsel/knight. This actually speaks to the benevolent sexism of chivallry.

Mere reaction is what we've been reduced to and its pretty much the only way to get a voice within the context of the gender snore dynamic... in the mainstream. Behind the scenes, there is much more open dialogue and unfortunately a lot of the same angsty malevolence present amongt women and feminists in characterising the opposite sex. Which is an easy influence to absorb and takes consistent effort to keep at bay.

Changes are under foot. Many social shifts are occuring under everyone's noses, contrary to the 'nothing changes' mantra of feminists, or any ideologue for that matter, in pursuit of funding and recruitment.

That the suffering of the poor gets USED to promote SELF INTEREST is truely cynical. This is the point. Some people will go to any length to promote their agenda, as you have pointed out.
Posted by trade215, Thursday, 28 February 2008 7:18:02 PM
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