@Zinnia
[Edited: fixed very silly mistake]
A very common thing for misogynists to reference is the fact that struggling societies have more women than men. The exception is unless there's some artificial selection going on where people are deliberately aborting or killing females in hopes of carrying a son to term next time, raising a son the next time, and/or murdering "bad" females before they can reproduce. Thus, they say, women are responsible for the decline of society.
They have the cause and effect reversed.
In reality, it turns out that several traits of a child are determined by environment, one of them being birth sex (you can see this in thriving societies too-- its the reason that a population in well-off societies that have not had any human interference consistently has around 50/50 male to female ratio with a slightly larger amount of females). For whatever reason, when famines, homelessness, environmental changes, etc. cause shit to hit the fan, humans somehow evolved the ability to significantly increase the likelihood of eggs getting two X chromosomes that cause the egg to develop into a female. Its not quite known exactly why this phenomenon occurs-- it could be that women have an in-built genetic insurance policy in the form of another X chromosome that makes them more likely to be viable and survive to whatever's considered old age in the region, it could be that women statistically live longer than men (therefore making have lots of women around a good investment in a future in places where infant mortality is common and opportunities for good pregnancies may be scarce), it could be that women are less likely to get diseases that rely on excess iron in the blood to thrive (Iron is a very common powerhouse for prokaryotes and there are plenty of parasites that get it from our bloodstream and then, if successful, go on to raid other areas of the body for iron. Women, however, get rid of excess iron in the bloodstream a lot quicker than men because they're statistically smaller than men and because periods, breastfeeding, and pregnancies use up and expel lots of iron from the bloodstream), or maybe something else. But it happens on a pretty reliable basis so long as people don't interfere in some way.
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Also, I'd love to post pictures of people whose faces and bodies have been seriously fucked up by all kinds of awful shit in WWI and WWII but still have loving families and friends or had them for as long as they were alive. But they tend to be pretty graphic and I fear it would be degrading and disrespectful to use their visages just to prove a point about anything except the impact wars can have on ordinary people or why we have nice things like the Geneva conventions and the ability to prosecute people for war crimes. You are, however, free to Google them if you want to see my point.