UK: "Why Is Women's Health Still a Joke?"

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2013-09-03 03:39

Article here. Excerpt:

"I am the director of Wellbeing of Women and consider myself privileged to be working for a fantastic charity that prioritises women's health.

My own feeling is that female wellbeing is still vastly under resourced, and often our more personal health issues are considered taboo or somehow trivial. Many women are slow to take the time to go to their doctor and poorly informed about the possible causes leading to delayed diagnosis and treatment.'

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Good to see she is being challenged in her assertions and prejudices.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-09-03 15:14

About a year ago I saw an article regarding lifespans. This article showed that the gap between men and women's lifespan had shrunk by a very tiny amount. It also noted that the cause of this was that men had a larger jump in life expectancy than women... in other words, both women and men were being found to live longer, but this particular study found the recent increases were a little higher for men than for women. This was presented as a problem. As some kind of travesty.

That's how women's health is treated in comparison to men's. But the reality is, women's advocates haven't really bothered to look at men as an equality goalpost for a very long time. They simply decide what they want, claim victimization and unfair treatment, and make demands. Women's rights long surpassed men's ages ago, but nobody has noticed through the perpetual victim propaganda of the women's movement.

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Submitted by Kratch on Tue, 2013-09-03 16:58

Hmm, so fund raisers to fight breast cancer. Haven't seen many of those, have you? Meantime, it's Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, but you would never know it. And "Go Red for Women", because, you know, only women have heart attacks. Yeah, women's health desperately needs more attention...

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Submitted by StayingFit on Tue, 2013-09-03 22:32