But Women Have it Worse


 This is a meme on gamer websites, and is meant to be sarcastic, the idea being that whatever ills men suffer, "women have it worse".  Gamers are not known for their advanced attitudes towards women or feminism, although claims about "toxic masculinity" usually come from people who have never got anywhere near The Elder Scrolls or Death Stranding. So it is a change to have a psychologist discussing the topic:
 "When Hilary Clinton said in 1998 that “women have always been the primary victims of war,” it sent a chill down the spine of many. It is a questionable piece of emotional accounting to calculate that, even though men die in greater numbers than women—often after being drafted unwillingly into combat—the impact on women is greater because they lose male relatives, become refugees, and are left with the responsibility of raising children alone.

But if you think Clinton’s accounting was reasonable, then you will have no problem with the narrative around the gender death gap in the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. You might have noticed that in the media (for example, the BBC, the Guardian), and even in the world of health (for example, the World Health Organisation and the Lancet), a commonly recurring narrative has developed around the pandemic: More men are dying, but the real victims are women. Moreover, this narrative usually implies that men’s deaths are largely due to men’s poor decisions about health behaviour." Read more. 

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