A sexist celebration

doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7547.976-a

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Robert A Jacoby, editor, The Pop Reporter (rjacoby@jhuccp.org)

Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, 111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, MD 21202, MD, USA

EDITOR—With distress I read Barford et al's editorial, with its coquettish title, inflammatory quote, and the first sentence's disdainful and sexist encouragement for “at least a quiet celebration” that women can now expect to live longer than men everywhere.1 Can you imagine the outcry if such a remark in a medical journal were directed towards women?

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