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I already emailed him and cc'd President Bush and my Senators and rep in the House. I wasn't especially polite about it, but I at least made sure they all knew there is someone out there who notices the sexism and is mad about it.
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This is just nutty stuff. How can you put out 8 brochures for one gender on issues of heart disease and all of them be for women? Bizarre.
When I heard this I called L'Enfants office and registered my thoughts. His liason was very friendly and open to feedback and said she would pass it on. She also suggested I call the media office at NIH and share my thoughts with them. I did this and was told by the tech there that actually they had discontinued 4 other brochures....all for women! LOL!! Misandry is so pervasive and accepted that it is invisible. We need to keep speaking up. Over and over.
Stand Your Ground Forum
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by Anonymous User on Sunday October 13, @02:37AM EST (#7)
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First off, I've GOT to say it...,
L'ENPHANT...?!?? That's his real name? L'Enphant?
Does he have a long nose, a love of peanuts and hang out with Tarzan...?
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Anyway all kidding aside, To show how prevasive the misinformation goes about men and heart disease, Even in my community's local 'Indian council', pamphlets about heart disese were handed out, recently. ALL of them centered on the problem for women and women ONLY. The pamphlets went as far to say, that it is the number one killer of women!!
Now, I know for a fact that amoung American Indians, at least, heart disease is an equal opportunity killer of BOTH sexes.
But take heart, (no pun intended) Because fortunately, I know the council head, personaly, and had a little chat with him about this.
He is a good man and listened to what I said in ernest. there fore, I expect things to change soon, when it comes to things like this.
I also spoke to the Council head about a news letter, that we put out, conserning 'domestic violence'. You guessed it, It focused on female victims ONLY. But after my talk with the council head, The very next news letter not only APOLOGIZED for excludeing male victims of D.V., it contained an in depth look at the "hidden" problem.
For MUCH of the information gathered for that report, I directed the council to the MENSACTIVISM.ORG site. From this website, they found EVERYTHING they needed to compile an accurate and thourough artical, on the subject.
Part of the reason I've just told you all this is because I want you all to know that, between, both the information on this website and The posts I have read from ALL of you, (exept the Trolls) have taught me alot about how to be an effective 'Men's activist'.
Before I ever came here to this website, I had NO CLUE. But thanks to you all here, I am now not only a better Men's activist, I am a better 'Indian activist' as well. My next step, Become a HUMAN activist, piriod.
Thanks, guys.
Thundercloud.
'Hoka-hey!"
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I emailed L'Enfant myself a week or so ago, and I've gotten no response, canned or otherwise. Perhaps I'll give them a call. At least, then I'll know someone got the message.
Sean
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by Anonymous User on Friday October 11, @02:26PM EST (#6)
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I did too and got no response as well. I wrote again asking where I can lodge a complaint, and still no response. I did mention the US Attorney Citizen Complaint Department. Maybe they didn't like that?
Marc
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I got a return call today from NIH about this issue. I asked him point blank and he stated clearly that their 8 brochures for women and none for men is not sexist. He said that he would send me an email message that would help me in understanding this issue. My apologies for the formatting or lack thereof. It came in without a trace of formatting. I've added some paragraph breaks for sanity. Here it is:
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has received a number of communications expressing concern that it may not be devoting appropriate attention to cardiovascular disease issues in men. To address these comments, the Institute has prepared the following statement.
From its inception as the National Heart Institute in 1948, the NHLBI has consistently addressed the health of all Americans. The Institute's long history of programs to address the needs of both men and women began in 1948 with the Framingham Heart Study, which included approximately equal numbers of each. However, during the Institute's earlier years, it placed particular emphasis on heart disease in men for the simple and compelling reason that they were experiencing heart disease morbidity and mortality at alarming and growing rates. More recently, the Institute has implemented selected efforts to fill the gaps in knowledge relating to cardiovascular disease in women. For example, current approaches to evaluating chest pain in men are often ineffective in establishing a diagnosis in women, and better approaches are being sought.
It is certainly true that the preponderance of participants in NHLBI-supported clinical research in 1998 were women (251,000 men versus 543,367 women). However, this does not in any way imply that the Institute neglects the health needs of men. In fact, much of the apparent excess is attributable to the 162,000 women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health that addresses a number of health issues relevant to postmenopausal women. The WHI is counted in the NHLBI totals only because the NHLBI administers it, not because it is part of our research portfolio. Also counted in the NHLBI totals are nearly 50,000 women participating in trials evaluating the efficacy of aspirin and antioxidant vitamins in preventing heart disease - issues that were resolved for men in a separate men-only trial (the Physicians' Health Study) conducted some years ago. In addition, the NHLBI total includes over 30,000 women participating in studies related to complications of hypertension during pregnancy. The NHLBI has, for 30 years, supported health education programs that translate the results of our research programs into practical recommendations for health-care professionals, patients, and the public. Readers may be interested to learn that the two longest-running and most influential programs, which concern high blood pressure and cholesterol, were launched on the basis of findings from large-scale clinical studies conducted in men alone.
Over the years, the Institute has directed its health-education messages to persons of both sexes and all racial/ethnic groups, and much evidence indicates that they have been highly effective. Consider for example, the number of deaths from coronary heart disease in the United States in 2000 - 260,574 in men and 254,630 in women. If the death rates had remained at the historical high level reached in 1968, an additional 442,521 men and 372,010 women would have died of coronary heart disease in 2000. Although both women and men have benefited from our programs, it has become apparent over the past several years that many women, unlike men, fail to understand that heart disease is their number one killer and neglect to take steps to reduce their risk of developing it. Accordingly, we have developed some new campaigns and materials, specifically designed for women, to address this gap in our health promotion efforts.
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I got the same reply in my email. They are clearly discriminating against males for sexist reasons, but the fact that they bothered to respond to us indicates that we are making ourselves heard and we are getting some attention. We have to keep pushing. We are winning, but there is a long way to go.
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