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There are many other such examples.So what, you may ask.

Are you looking for sympathy?

Well yes, actually.

Not because of the bad hand God has dealt us men - she's a vengeful deity, after all, so it's best to accept our fate gracefully - but because our biological misfortune is being compounded by active discrimination.Last week, a 61-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man, Francis Blackmore, was arrested in Cape Town after holding the provincial head of the Human Rights Commission hostage at gunpoint for two hours.

Much was made in the local media and on television of the commissioner's bravery in persuading the gunman to let his staff go and hold him alone instead.

But they glossed over the explanation Blackmore gave for his desperate behaviour - he was protesting against the fact that, as a rule in SA, men reach pensionable age only at 65, whereas women start receiving payments at 60.Now, I am not for a moment suggesting that Blackmore's means of addressing his complaint was correct - although in choosing that approach he may have been as much of a slave to his chromosomes as a woman who burst into tears and sought out a sympathetic authority figure to confide in.

He has a point, though.

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