It&#x27;s not alarming (to the average person) because in the human species, females are precious and males are disposable. You can see this theme running throughout a huge gamut of social situations and media.<p>When bad things happen to girls, this triggers a low-level concern response that isn&#x27;t triggered when bad things happen to boys.<p>Boys are supposed to get back up, shake it off, and try harder. If they kill themselves, we feel a little bad, but the badness is the same level (give or take) as throwing away a plate of food before it was finished.<p>It has taken me a very long time to accept this as true (and am far from accepting it as right).