On Oct 19, 2006, at 7:33 PM, b sharp wrote: > And timidly suggest the answer > is....chivalry? For what other reason (again won't get into > biology) can we > as a society consider men to be more expendable than women? Chivalry *is* biology. One guy can impregnate thousands of women. A woman can bear a lifetime maximum of, what, maybe 20 or 30 children? Adam