Wednesday, January 18, 2012
And Another Thing...
...how come all the emphasis on cancer in American media is on female cancers, particularly breast cancer? The message I get from this is that men and their health are, somehow, not as important in the grand scheme of things. I think that, by now, people are more "aware" of breast cancer than ever before. Prostate and testicular cancer? Not so much, if the (lack of) media coverage is any indication. Kind of sexist, if you ask me...
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Check this out....According to estimates from the National Institutes of Health, in the United States in 2010, 207,090 women and 1,970 men will get new cases of breast cancer, while 39,840 women and 390 men will likely die from the disease. The estimated new cases of prostate cancer this year — all affecting men — is 217,730, while it is predicted 32,050 will die from the disease.
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/05/breast-cancer-receives-much-more-research-funding-publicity-than-prostate-cancer-despite-similar-number-of-victims/#ixzz1jxFb9WE8
Not surprising. These are the types of disparities that arise when you have forty years of rampant, unchecked feminism. Welcome to the gynocracy, fellas...
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