{"id":4621,"date":"2008-08-19T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2008-08-19T00:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T18:47:00","slug":"revenge-of-the-fairer-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/revenge-of-the-fairer-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge Of The Fairer Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"
Feminists should feel immense schadenfreude when they read this headline:<\/p>\n
Mosquitoes prefer men, says study<\/a><\/p>\n The study itself, going by the report, seems somewhat dubious to me. It has found that more men between the ages of 15 to 40 get malaria than women, and the researchers have concluded that sex hormones may have something to do with this. A plausible explanation, to my mind, is that men spend more time outdoors and in mosquito-infested areas, as the last quote in that piece also indicates. A correlation alone proves nothing, and maybe mosquitos, like many of us, merely make the most of what is available. <\/p>\n But I really shouldn’t quibble. Any alleged preference that mosquitos show towards men is clearly a sign of good taste, which has never before been so lamentable. It’s bittersweet, this news.<\/p>\n