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Re: To answer how many
by Jams

"Don't bother" - atlanticmo

The exact numbers aren't known because even when there are hospitals, people don't always bring the injured in, and rarely appear for corpse counting before they bury their neighbors/loved ones/neighborhood thugs.

When there is an opportunity to count, go figure, males make up for the vast majority of casualties. There's nothing controversial about that. Men are always the first to be shot in every war - combatants or not.

But far more important to the greater point, note that you go out of your way to present women as the more sympathetic casualties of war, while having no compunction whatsoever about portraying "men" as the people "mostly" responsible for the "blowing up" and "shooting". Are they really? Women have no political influence now? Or is it that no women support wars? I suppose one myth is as good as the next isn't it?

Have you ever noticed that female casualties are presented in the media as "women", while male casualties are presented as "casualties"?

Not only are males the fodder for wars (as you've noted), but they're doubly abused by your oh-so-common belittling of their lives. Of course, the cake is proverbially taken when we top it off with complete amnesty for women who happily ushered these men to their graves.

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