{"id":299,"date":"2003-06-23T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2003-06-23T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/06\/23\/count-down\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T19:49:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T23:49:30","slug":"count-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/06\/23\/count-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Count down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a173\"><\/a>  The BBC reports on a recent study <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/3012308.stm\">predicting that men might soon outlive women<\/a>.  For illustration, BBC used a photo of Joanna Lumley as the AbFab character Patsy Stone.  Patsy chainsmokes and drinks &#8220;Stoly&#8221; straight from the bottle; in this photo she is atop a Manhattan skyscraper, about to be rescued via helicopter by her friend Edina Monsoon.  (Smoking and drinking look very glamourous here; why did BBC have to use this picture?)  Stress at work, however, is the third factor in the triumvirate riding roughshod on female life expectancy.  And could I just add that not having a wife will no doubt accelerate women&#8217;s earlier demise even more?  Women <em><strong>are<\/strong><\/em> supposed to live longer, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montagu.org\/Ashley.htm\">Ashley Montagu<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/076198982X\/103-0897506-0724651?v=glance\">The Natural Superiority of Women<\/a> already pointed out decades ago.  They are biologically suited for it.  But if they smoke, drink, and get stressed out like men, they&#8217;ll die like men, to paraphrase Martin Jarvis of Cancer Research UK, a critic of the new life-expectancy data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports on a recent study predicting that men might soon outlive women. For illustration, BBC used a photo of Joanna Lumley as the AbFab character Patsy Stone. Patsy chainsmokes and drinks &#8220;Stoly&#8221; straight from the bottle; in this photo she is atop a Manhattan skyscraper, about to be rescued via helicopter by her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}