The most male and female reasons to be admitted to the hospital

I hope they're using a lot of scaffoldings during the Epstein Ballroom construction

Looks like women are too busy with all that sex stuff to get out on their motorbikes.

At least the horsegirl population vastly outnumbers the horseboys...
- What is a hog but a horse with more horsepower?
The men who aren't getting involved in motorcycle accidents are getting them pregnant. It's just natural selection.

Meh the data is presented in a not only useless but misleading way.

Shoot from the hip with no explanation....
Not seeing anything inherently wrong with the data viz (obviously not talking about the veracity of the data itself or its geographic/linguistic scope as that's another matter).
Would you elaborate what you mean?
- if you are going to bring up comparisons based on sex, you pollute the data including things that ONLY can possibly effect one sex. what good is it to compare how much post pregnancy care effects women vs men? or to have half the comparisons divvy all the different ways you can classify a motor cycle accident, where there is the same outcome for all of them.
The line item for obstetric and gynecological devices is interesting.

Fellas! Stay off the bicycles and motorcycles!

No. May my organs be of good use to someone more intelligent and useful.
- Put me right on the very bottom of that recipient list then

Ok, so what I am hearing is that I can significantly reduce the risk of motorcycle injuries by not being a man? Like how far do I need to go here, because if its just dressing in drag, it may be just the supporting data I will need to convince my wife to let me have a motorcycle "just one more time"

On the one hand, all the pregnancy-related items are of course very important -- but they're not particularly illuminating on a list like this. If there was a "Testicular Torsion" item marked as 100% male, that wouldn't really tell me much here either.

Yeah this is a super pointless list because it's obvious they cherry picked data points to make the graph look dramatic.
I imagine pregnancy-related admissions weren’t excluded because they eclipse everything else in magnitude. Surely if 1.6 million British males had been admitted for testicular torsion, you would find that illuminating.
- That does appear to be the case. Almost all of the pregnancy visits aren't done in hospital. They are clinic visits and clinical post hospital appointments. And almost all of the male admissions are trauma admissions through the ER.
  And to be honest, men do have a higher rate of trauma admissions than women. While women are a bit more often admitted for medical issues. But, often have medical issues they also see a doctor for.
I disagree. It does show the contrast of what most women deal with when compared directly to the male category. And while pregnancy is specific to female (at birth), it is culturally significant because it is so prevalent.
- Yes of course, that's why I said it was important. But this table is about gender disparities in specific reasons for admittance. If the ratio can't possibly be anything but 100%, what does that tell me about anything other than the self-evidently obvious?
  You might as well tell me water is wet or the sky blue. Very true and both those facts are important, but neither is exactly new or surprising information.
- It doesn't compare directly to the male category because there is no male category listed.
  Quite a bit of interesting information on display to be sure, but with 20% of the chart displaying information that excludes one of the two things being compared, it's not a good representation of what the title suggests.
  On a chart showing male female disparity for types of cancer, ovarian and testicular would be just as irrelevant as the bottom fifth of this admissions chart.
If there was a "Testicular Torsion" item marked as 100% male, that wouldn't really tell me much here either.
Uh oh
- Yes, yes. Entirely legitimate issues about gender identity aside, I think we all know my point here is strictly about biology.

This information will surely only be used to inform rational and socially progressive ideas about gender

Huh.

Horse girls are a bigger part of the horse riding population than I thought

My girlfriend's sister has a horse and I refuse to go near it. It's a two ton object being operated by a pea of a brain, he once got into a panic because his friend was behind him and he couldn't see him, so he ran around the field madly until he collided with a stationary tree. Oh and he's scared of blue wheelbarrows, just blue ones, wheelbarrows of any other colour or apparently acceptable.
He has already stood on her foot once.
- Horses are fucking creepy.
- two ton
  [Edit]
  Sorry, that was an arrogant way of phrasing it.
  ~~What the hell kind of breed is two tons? The heaviest ones I know get up to about one ton, but those are big, heavy working horses, not the average riding horse.~~
  Most horses won't be even a single ton. There are a few breeds of working horses that do get up to a ton, but most regular riding horses are a half ton, on average.
  [End of Edit]
  Our icelandic horse has also stood on my foot once, but she's only about 300kg (600lbs) and didn't put much of it on that foot before I shooed her off.
  Also, she's super calm about damn near everything.
  First encounter with a motorised shear? Eyes wide open for a few seconds, then she's already out of fucks to give.
  Shenanigans trying to craft a costume for her result in a piece of cloth suddenly covering her eyes? Eh, my humans will know what they're doing. Actually, can I eat that? Nope, apparently not. Lame.
  The worst she'll do when something actually does scare her is stand up straight, refuse to move closer and rarely attempt to put a little more distance. She might unexpectedly sidestep a weird object on the roadside, but not so rapidly as to dismount my wife, and she's never run away in a panic that I know of.
  And if you scratch her right, she basically melts. Scratch her ears, she'll relax her lower lip like she's losing control of her face muscles. Scratch her butt, she'll lean into it. Back away, she'll follow. It's the only case I've ever seen of a horse happily walking backwards.
In the lord of the rings a lot of the extras on horses are women with fake beards because of this
Maybe they are just a lot worse at it.

This is embarrassing to men. You're suppose to walk off those sorts of injuries.

And try harder to get pregnant!
Indeed, I walked off my incidental pregnancy.

Where are the objects in rectum numbers?

I guess it is not as biased as you assume

As a cyclist I both love and hate how many separate ones there are

Part of my job is fitting people with custom bracing in the trauma ward. I realized this wasn't the US because there were so many cyclists, and it was lacking an atv category.
In my state the trauma ward has an ATV season. Also, I'm surprised there wasn't a subcategory for pool injuries, or at least a category for slip and falls. Are swimming pools not very popular in the UK?
- General slip-and-fall doesn't seem like it would be highly gendered. Do you find pool injuries are overwhelmingly one sex?
- Very few people have swimming pools at home, if that's what you mean.
And how many admissions compared to motorcycles there are.
And at the opposite end of the spectrum, how many elements for pregnancy there are as well! (And no specific Delivery, but Outcome of Delivery. Do people in US not usually give birth in a hospital?)
Edit: Not US but England
- In the US the hospital is most common but there is a growing movement for alternative birth methods, birthing centers, at home births, being strapped to a wall and having crystals shot at you until your baby just sort of materializes, etc
- This chart is for people in England.
- This is NHS England data, so not likely to be affected by whether people in the US usually give birth in a hospital.
- Dunno about people in the US, but this chat says the information is from England. I'm guessing delivery is included in one of the other categories (probably outcome of delivery).
- Birth centers are incredibly common now. And home births are preferred among certain people, like anti-vaxers and sovereign citizens
Seriously. As a downhill biker I count at least 5 lines for me:
Cyclist, Object Collision Cyclist, Other Cyclist, Non Collision Accident Assault, Sharp object (my shins and calves are constantly being torn up by my fucking pedals. fuck those grip screws) Struck by sports equipment
- Clipless will save your shins :)

I wonder why obstetrical and gynecologic devices 98.3% female and not 100%... I assume it must be biological gender since it's NHS data.

Possibly for breast cancer? Men can get breast cancer, it's just not as common
Maybe vasectomy clips count?

We've got to improve those male pregnancy exam numbers, women are winning!

Wow, motorcycles are dangerous, damn.

Yeah. That and pregnancy. Don't even get me started on riding a motorcycle while pregnant. Might as well just ride that bike down to the morgue.
- Okay but what if I turned a coffin into a motorcycle? Does the bad luck even out or am I just taunting Death?
Most fun things are.
Or men riding motorcycles are really reckless, no way to conclude here
less the bicycles, unless I read the numbers incorrectly because I couldn't be bothered to spend longer

I feel like it needs more obviously only male ones to counteract the obviously only female.

Where’s testicular cancer? Prostate? “Dick stuck in [object]”? You know that last one has to have at least 1000 entries.

at least 1000 entries.
Object stuck in arse is the classic, if the anecdotes of my medical professional friends are anything to go by. Although maybe that’s already covered by “Assault, blunt object”
- Females have arses too…
- “Don’t threaten me with a good time” eh?

Men don't do well on two wheels.

They do as good as women on 4 legs it seems….
Or women don't duck with two wheels
- Considering how overwhelmingly male every biker group I've seen is I'd say it's more that

Assault and two wheels. Things dudes should strive to avoid.

I feel like what's missing is the magnitude of each of these versus the others

Yes. It's shown on the right, and ought to have bee sorted by that.
Also, notice the bottom text, that it excludes all cases where neither gender is more than 80%, so only extreme differences are shown.
It's carefully chosen to show some point, which might be interesting in some context, but not really interesting by itself without context.
This is a goofy graph. We have all these admissions of 100% female due to being female. Where's the "had penis caught in chinese finger puzzle" admissions?
- Probably less than 1000 cases
- That's solved by the medics on scene. You'd be surprised at just how effective my medical shears are and what they can cut...

The amount of lawnmower injuries...

It reminded me of 1000 Ways To Die

What on earth are these "Agents acting on muscles or breathing" that women seem to be much more prone to?

I assumed that meant “overdose” which is easier to do the less you weigh.
People taking too much muscle relaxants.
- Lmao, shout out to all my girlies getting hospitalised after huffing too many poppers
Maybe Botox?
My guess was date rape drugs
Huffing paint?

agents acting on muscles and breathing? 🤔

Drug effects. Prescription or recreational
- So more men do drugs but women OD way more?
- wondering why that would be a primarily "female reason" for admission, then - wouldn't drugs that impact breathing or muscles be administered or accessible to men as well?
  Someone else suggested date rape drugs, that seems like a possibility - but is it typical for date rape drugged victims to end up in the hospital such that "agents acting on muscles and breathing" becomes the reason for admission? Just doesn't make sense, tbh
Allergic reaction to substances (agents) causing paralysis, asphyxiation, shock, etc
- why would this be a "female" reason to be admitted to the hospital?
It was just a massage I didn't mean to hurt them!

Who are the 1.7% of males needing OB/GYN?

Trans men? But there aren't that many I think.
- Since the pregnancy is at 100%, I believe it's afab vs amab
The full title of that entry is actually "Obstetric and gynaecological devices associated with adverse incidents", so maybe some of the men are actually the OB/GYN themselves that are getting injured in the course of their work? The raw number is only 19 cases, so I could see that being plausible
Alternatively, with so few cases, could it be intersex people who are still categorised as male under whatever criteria this is using? 1.7% seems a touch high for that, but maybe things go wrong more often for said intersex people
Edit: wait, 90 of the cases are 0-year-olds. I'm definitely going with injuries to babies during difficult births / C-sections / similar

I thought there’d be more “remove foreign object from up bum”.

That might be unisex.
The full data set (easily found on leobenedictus.substack.com) includes "Foreign body entering into or through eye or natural orifice". It's pretty evenly split, only leaning towards men by a few percentage points
I suspect all baseball and tennis players ended up in the "struck by sports equipment"
I wonder if porn models that get stuff stuck fall into the "work-risk factors"
Are those "prophylactic surgery"?

Mental note: stop brandishing scimitar while motorcycling.

The women have an unfair advantage. They get classes on the subject.
- Doctors concluded this leads to hysteria
Look sometimes you've got to take some risks to follow the lead of Jaghatai Khan
- Why ride in a tank and fight at a distance if you could wear a tank and ride a motorbike at breakneck speed to close into melee range? For the Khan and the Emperor!

Because men cannot give birth, they engage in other types of high-risk activities, such as riding a motorcycle.

Seriously though, what's a procreative management?

IUD's
- Don't mix those up with IED's. Believe me.
- Just dont drive drunk...
Vasectomy I guess for guys, having your tubes tied for women.
Because men cannot give birth
some can :3

what is "agents acting on muscles and breathing" ?

My interpretation was drugs which are CNS depressants or paralytics. A benzo overdose presumably falls into this category, maybe also opioids. It can't include alcohol though, because people drinking until paralytic is not an overwhelmingly female phenomenon (I believe it is currently pretty even)

the psychiatric one is interesting.

It's a bit more taboo for men to seek that care, for one.
- This is for being admitted to the hospital though, not counselling. Inpatient psychiatric care is pretty serious stuff.
- i seeked out care because i knew what was going on with me was not normal. when i was there, i saw one women in the holding area, and one man having a break with secuirty around him. when i was admitted to the psych ward on the floor without maximum security, id say that biologically born males out numbered biologically born females
  Howevever, i have been the hospital for other things, and everytime i have gone to the ER, it's been someone who identifies as a female 99% of the time who i see is waiting to goto the psych hold. so its interesting to see that reflected in the statistics.
- and those psychological crises in men might be logged differently, as suicides, homicides, or assaults for example

I think this is the source, also better image quality (in Boost at least it looks super compressed).

There's a little HD button in the top right on Boost that I'm guessing shows the original image.

So… gynecological devices has some amount of males?

Men are dumb and put things in wrong places.
- I blame the lack of sexual education in schools, if it was better then more men would understand the importance of a flared base
Yeah, trans men.
Warning: use an incognito/privacy mode browser before googling ANY of the following.
Medical fetishists are a thing. I think it's due to kink play with speculums, sounding tools, catheters, and other (gendered) medical instruments.
- For men those things would land in a urology/andrology/proctology category.
- What you actually need is a privacy respecting open source browser, the clear recent history button, and also, if your router is untrusted, DNS over HTTPS.
Maybe males being treated for post partum depression under obstetrics? Otherwise idk

I have a hard time believing that not a single trans man has been to the hospital for a pregnancy.

It's using "gender" as people used to 10+ years ago, as a synonym for "sex." They never got the memo. (1) It's clearly labeled male and female, which aren't genders, (2) there's only two categories instead of dozens as there would be for gender
I have an easy time believing that it rounds to 100.0 at ~~3 sig figs~~ 1dp though
- Would 99.9% really have been that confusing?

can you repost this as a bingo card? i might win

Okay so no two wheelers, not assaulting anyone and fuck the lawnmower I'm gonna hit 100 years!

Do not fuck the lawnmower
- While it's running.
- dont tell me who to love, dad!
  unlike you, the lawnmover loves me to bits!
The thing with lawnmowers is most commonly it's either they reached in to clear a blockage or it's a ride on lawnmower that rolled. Seriously rolling a lawnmower is super deasly (same goes for ATVs)
It's a bit surprising to me that mowing the lawn is a male thing, my assumption is that it would be stereotyped to women because it is a maintenance task and for some reason women are stereotyped as the ones doing those.
P.S. "stereotype" seems like the wrong word here but can't think of anything better
- The old hand powered needed a lot of force, so maybe that's why it mas "a man thing" in peoples minds. I have absolutely no idea if that is still the case today.

Sad to see that women seem to not cycle very much in England...

Or maybe they’re just safer when they ride. “Cyclist, object collision” sounds like it’s basically always the cyclist’s fault given the other available categories, like someone riding too fast and hitting a stationary object.
- There's twice as many non-collision accidents as all the collision categories combined. People just wiping out, which definitely sounds like too fast for the turn, showboating, etc. Not that women can't do all that - it just feels like much more stereotypically male behavior.
Perhaps they do but in a more sensible manner.
I'd be super curious to see how much of that is food delivery bikers. In my city, they are everywhere but I'm not dude I've ever seen a woman doing it. But in terms of reckless cycling, those delivery folks are way over represented (which makes sense, their income depends on speed.)
People don't cycle that much overall, due to perception and poor infrastructure, but yeah it's also skewed by gender. My impression is that the public perception of poor safety is something that most people are exposed to, but weighs more heavily on women.