Comments by "Lorri Lewis" (@lorrilewis2178) on "Men and women DON'T NEED each other anymore: the consequences of replacing necessity with desire" video.

You're telling us a sob story without telling us what you SAID to her.
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Most women outlive their husbands, so what possible difference would having once been married mean? Many older women are moving in together to support each other too. This is not some unsolvable puzzle.
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@jobunny919 Exactly. After my grandfather died, my grandmother lived alone very happily and did all the things she loved. It was only when she got to her 90s that an illness she had in her 20s, started affecting her brain. She had a paid companion for a few years, and when that wasn't enough, she moved into a nursing home. That is the same progression whether you are a man or woman. Besides, most married women outlive their husbands anyway.
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@jobunny919 My grandparents had a happy marriage where neither felt taken for granted, so she did grieve. However, once the grief softened, she lived a full active life going out with friends, having a dog, and doing all her favorite hobbies. It's a good thing she enjoyed herself because she lived 30 YEARS longer after his death!!! However, I've heard plenty of widows feel like they retired after becoming widows because their husbands were a lot of work for them. Plus, they had to take care of their husbands for years while their health declined. My grandfather died suddenly, so my grandmother didn't have to do that.
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Lots of older women move in together. This is not rocket science. You aren't really worried about women; you are just hoping things don't work out for them.
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Lots and lots of women write that same sentence, except substitute the word "women" for "men".
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Women make men.
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@valecrassus7835 Also, my grandmother lived 30 years longer than my grandfather. She was happy on her own and didn't need care until her early 90s. We got a caretaker to move in and that arrangement lasted a few years until she needed a nursing home. There are many ways to solve this.
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@valecrassus7835 Ever heard of nieces and nephews? Ever heard of specifying things out legally before you get to that point? Ever heard of Power of Attorney, which can be anyone you designate? This is not the impossible situation you want to think it is.
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@valecrassus7835 I might ask if YOU are from Earth. You act like no one in the history of the world has ever lived without children. Plenty of people are close to their nieces and nephews. I know two brothers in their 70s who both left everything to their nephew. One of them has already died and the nephew handled all the arrangements. When it comes time for the other one, the same thing will happen.
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@djjukeboxhero6491 I'm not your sweet cheeks. You should do some reading in women's spaces online. You'd be surprised as hell.
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@valecrassus7835 They can easily get someone younger to move in to help them. The Caretaker Gazette is full of listings for those type of arrangements. Sometimes the caretakers even put in their own ads that they are available. For starters, the caretakers live rent-free.
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@tranya327 At a certain age, no one should live alone and if those people in Japan had banded together with other older people, no one would be finding corpses. Also, there are already devices available to put in an elderly person's home where someone monitors them. They speak to them through the device and the device has a cutesy friendly face. The elderly person can have whole conversations through the device. They monitors know when there's something wrong and can dispatch emergency workers.
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@sebsebski2829 The difference in lifespan in ONE COUPLE tells you nothing about the median difference. You have to control for genes and whether the person took care of their health. On average, there is not such a giant difference. My grandfather came from a family with genetic heart problems. Though he was in otherwise great shape, his genetics worked against him.
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@adamrocks19 The man's part involves nothing but a few minutes of pleasure. Do I really have to explain the vast disparity of effort and physical danger between the man's and woman's part? In 2020, 850 women in the US died in pregnancy/childbirth. For EVERY woman who died, 70 MORE pregnant women required life-saving interventions to avoid death. That's 59,500 pregnant women who would have died without intervention. And that's only one year (2020). The numbers are similar each year. Below is a quote from Adebayo Adesomo, a fellow in the Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and instructor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah. His M.D. is from the University of Texas Health Science Center: "Although pregnancy is not a disease, even one that is otherwise uncomplicated can go unexpectedly awry. The changes that the body undergoes during pregnancy that are needed to support an ongoing gestation are still physiologically akin to running a marathon. All of an expecting mother’s organs and bodily systems are put to a nine-month endurance test. The work of the heart and lungs increases by 30 to 50 percent (or even more in a twin pregnancy!), the kidneys filter more blood, the immune system adjusts, metabolic demands increase substantially, and there are myriad other changes. The way any given individual’s body reacts to these changes is unpredictable.
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@ironmonkey1512 Your opening comment says men make and maintain EVERYTHING.
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