Vulnerable people

[BuckingFrolics]

Reading the Guardian article about climate change it says "vulnerable people such as the elderly, women, children, ill and disabled people are particularly at risk".

It just jumped out at me, that the media afaik don't say "able bodied men will be okay but everyone else will suffer".

Sounds worse that way doesn't it - and again it's the normalisation of men as "human beings" and everyone else as other than.

Pisses me off.

I'm just imagining the' Not All Able-bodied Men Are Likely To Be OK so how dare you make such a generalisation' comments.

Remember in the Handmaids Tale when the previous handmaid left a message and Offred found it? We should start leaving messages around.

''Its where you fucking left it''.
''We told you so''.
''April Fools! We're not really all dead, we're hiding and we have the ice cream''.

Sounds worse that way doesn't it - and again it's the normalisation of men as "human beings" and everyone else as other than

I saw Penny M talking on BBC news the other day about the issues that affect women. She made reference to the fact that certain issues impact more on women than the "average person". So men then.

Yeah it pisses me off when women are classed as a minority group.

UP THE FIFTY TWO PER CENT!!!

Yes.

Vulnerable people = anyone not able-bodied, male, white, between 18 and 60, native English speaking (or passing as such)

But we never quite put it that way. That would be acknowledging the true scale of privilege we are talking about.

Wow, and not in a good way. Most of the population is fucked...

I'm wondering why able bodied women are classed as more vulnerable to weather changes than men? Is there a genuine physiological reason for it?

The people most vulnerable to climate change are those who will be hit by draught or floods and starvation. Those will be defined by geography rather than age or class.

I'm wondering why able bodied women are classed as more vulnerable to weather changes than men? Is there a genuine physiological reason for it?

Climate change isn't about weather. It is about flooding, forest fires, famine, and mass movement of people. Women are more vulnerable than men being on average less strong, but also because they may be hampered by pregnancy of having small infants.

It makes me think how laughable it would be had the Titanic had signs saying "some people will be offered a place on a lifeboat but able bodied men will probably not be given one"

Or "people give birth but men don't"

Or "people breastfeed infants but men are unable to do so"

Or "people start to menstruate on average at age 12; boys do not"

Research says that emergency plans are often written with men in mind - women are more vulnerable in emergency situations (such as those caused by climate change) because they are less likely to be with other adults than men (work differences) and in the aftermath their needs are different. And then, of course, mvaw is endemic in refugee camps and similar.

BuckingFrolics That is a very interesting exercise!