Are they accompanying their wives, end up fainting during the procedures, hit their heads and have to be patched up?
Edit: the full billing code is "Obstetric and gynaecological devices associated with adverse incidents" Billing code Y76 "describes the circumstance causing an injury, not the nature of the injury."
So injuring a baby during delivery with forceps would result in this code.
Trans people exist and are people too.
We'll have people swapping genders and races and even species (I'm certain someone will pay to have cat ears or a tail). This will happen left and right because there will be no societal stigma anymore. People will embrace the full spectrum of possibility. We won't hate on a superficial basis. (Just for all the others, like pride and jealousy.)
You might even find yourself wanting to become a transgenic "trigender pyrofox from the forest planet". And I wouldn't judge. Who am I to tell you how to live your life? I'm not taking your Bible, guns, privacy, or religion away either. I just want you to ease up on hating others.
One day science fiction will be reality. And when it is, can you possibly harbor this same primitive hate?
Btw, my wife is trans. She's a fashion model. She's 100% passing and men steal glances at her and try to get her number constantly. You have probably met trans people you're attracted to and don't even know it.
If a tree falls in the woods and nobody knew it, did you commit the sin of lusting after "the wrong chromosomes?" Is someone going to damn you to eternal hell for it?
Live and let live. You're being the "far left progressive people" you claim to hate when you try to interfere in the lives of others. They want to take your guns and your god? Well, why are you trying to take people's dignity and tell them how to live? Two way street. It's horseshoe shaped and you have more in common than you think. Blind hatred for a way of life you're unfamiliar with is chief most. You have leftist allies who hate Christianity and other groups. You have so much in common. The only thing is that you're playing for a different team with a different jersey and a different brand of prejudice.
Jesus told you to love. Do it. Don't follow the antichrists teaching messages of hate.
Love is what brings us together and makes us stronger. If you don't have love to give or nice things to say, just keep it to yourself and stop adding negativity to the world.
I don't understand how TERFs are a thing. That's somehow worse than religious hatred, because you actually did do some independent thinking on this and still arrived at this hateful conclusion. The cold dark universe cares nothing about us, even if the light of our civilization is what ultimately brings meaning.
You think sex is sovereign. I think everything in our genes is a set of shackles and limitations that show how beautiful, yet how cruelly inadequate evolution is in optimizing for happiness - it's just an algorithm for reproductive fitness. Mote of dust, infinite universe. No sanctified meaning in our abiotic origin or our ape body plans.
You deny our brain's sovereignty and freedoms - the most majestic phenomenon in the universe - when you cling to genetics as a dogma.
> fundamentally it's all about encouraging sexism and attacking women for not complying with male demands.
Do you think women can't become men? That they shouldn't be allowed to? Don't deserve to be?
Do you think being a woman is an exclusive identity and a right and a privilege? Better than male? A club now denied to oppressive brutes as a form of generational restitution to the matriarchy?
Does this stem from a hatred of one gender over another? Or perhaps just a preference? A disgust for men wanting something they should never be allowed to have?
What do you think about being born disabled?
Being born short?
Being born disfigured?
Ugly?
Being born poor?
Balding?
Getting atherosclerosis or cancer because of genetic predisposition?
Our neanderthal skin and sex marker profiling is flawed. It was built as a survival mechanism and is no longer needed to help us kill rival tribes and produce dozens of offspring.
But it's not just our reactions to bodies, it's our bodies themselves.
Our birthright is a set of shackles. We are more than our biology. We didn't choose it - we exist in spite of it. We are our hopes and our dreams and our love. Our actions and our deeds. The things our bodies could never be for us.
Our bodies are just dust.
They impose frail limitations on our dreams.
Do not ascribe value to these weak little prisons that destine us to death.
I am not the me that you see. I am how I spend my limited time here. I am the ripples of my actions throughout society. I am who I touch and act throughout. The ideas that I spread, which will outlive my skin and bones.
I utterly denounce your labels as primitive and anachronistic and harmful.
Where we're going we won't even have bodies or sexes or hatred. Your kind of prejudice can't exist there.
https://leobenedictus.substack.com/p/that-hospital-admission...
This is a pretty stunning statistic to me. I suppose if you were to ask me to guess which gender is hospitalized the most frequently for mental health reasons, I'd probably guess women... but I wouldn't expect the distribution to be that extremely skewed.
Is there a simple explanation for this?
Men are over represented in prisons and the homeless population. Maybe they don’t seek help.
Wondering if this is point author is trying to make?
I think this was just a fun exercise for a curious mind. I don't think it needs to have a point - it's not an essay.
Would that make them the humans most likely to go to a hospital?
Also, probabilities don't work like that.
Thanks
PS: Female and male riders had this year nasty crashes in our club :(
Update: looked up some stats/surveys, apparently cycling skews 75-80% male.
Male cyclists are much more prone to be doing 40mph wheelies down a blind hill in the middle of the road than woman.
Don't get me started on motorcycles, PA is just next store (we are over the border in NJ). PA doesn't require helmets for motorcycle riders, and many male riders happily throw helmets to the wind. The level of stupidity there is astronomical.
Men, stop riding motorcycles Women, stop having kids
That last one might have some detrimental effects long term though.
So while men are taking risks, women take one for the team
They built the roof that shelters you and your family when it storms.
The OP didn’t say all of the reasons for male related injuries were needless, but if you look at the list, it’s dominated by activities that are inherently voluntary and risky.
So out of 18 reasons on the list, only a small part is "activities men have to take to survive", but many of the others aren't "inherently voluntary and risky" or cannot be blamed on the hospitalized person. The list is too short to be really interesting, when half of that list is the same thing with small variations (cycling/motorcycling), and the same for women (mostly pregnancy).
Included in that same dataset are assaults and sports related injuries, which are additional risky activities.
You might argue assaults aren’t voluntary. My personal experience suggests most assaults are the result of voluntary activity rather than involuntary activity, YMMV.
I’m not being naive. I have lived in a 3rd world country where it wasn’t uncommon to see a family of 5 on a motorcycle.
I would note that you will tend to see, proportionately speaking, more women on motorcycles in those countries for the reasons you suggested.
>I’m having to choose my words carefully, because I need to stress one thing: these are not the most common reasons for men and women to be admitted to hospital. They are the most typically male and typically female.
If you go to https://leobenedictus.substack.com/p/that-hospital-admission... and sort by number of admissions, you get stuff like:
- Personal history of certain other diseases
- Personal history of medical treatment
- Personal history of allergy to drugs, medicaments and biological substances
- Personal history of other diseases and conditions
As with all statistics, there is some apple to oranges comparisons and some contexts that get lost.
"HES contains records of all admissions, appointments and attendances at NHS-commissioned hospital services in England."
One could limit the data to accidents and illnesses. Outcome of pregnancy would then not qualify unless there were complications.
I know you're joking but three of the top four are basically 'work related'. Men taking one for the team doing all the dangerous jobs.
And maybe if the men stop riding motorcycles the women will stop getting plastic surgery which is also shockingly high as a reason to end up in hospital.
The follow-up article sorted by absolute numbers is a bit better suited, and predictably a bit more bland. Births is nearly in the top 10 though.
...but that's really going to mess up with general health policy (vaccination, checkup-visits, etc)
For similar reasons you may find a ton of other things which aren't normally an admission in the data, but at numbers less than one might expect because that alone isn't usually reason to admit.
I'm glad I got out of healthcare IT!
Men: wanking into a tube