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 M-Nome rated 10 months ago- I'm torn on this one. While on one hand, men and women do suffer from different diseases, I see her point. Women are encouraged by society to be more health-oriented than men. Who is more expected to go to the doctor when they're sick? In TV shows, the wives are always the ones making the ...
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- thelmasue rated 5 months ago
- wow, who'd think that seven years later, anyone would read this article i wrote. please note: the article is about the way the medical industry and media portrayed women as prone to sickness and ignored the fact that men get sick. i'd like to say that's changed in seven years, but i don't think it has. of COURSE men and women's bodies are different. of COURSE i've had difficult periods. hell, i used to take 4 ibuprofen every 4 hours. droe82, i'm glad you're offended by that advertising, and your point is well taken: i *do* see most things from a feminist perspective and believe me, it doesn't make me popular. i also realize i'm not necessarily right. it's just my perspective, and we all have one. and most of us are probably not necessarily right. and ya know what, jynxpup? you're right: there is no winning. not without a serious paradigm shift, which i'm pretty sure won't happen in my lifetime or yours.
peace.
- M-Nome rated 10 months ago
- I'm torn on this one. While on one hand, men and women do suffer from different diseases, I see her point. Women are encouraged by society to be more health-oriented than men. Who is more expected to go to the doctor when they're sick? In TV shows, the wives are always the ones making the husband go on the diet/cut out smoking and drinking, etc. The message is clear: women must worry about their health. Men can be much more lax.
 loveiscoffee rated 10 months ago- To deny that women and men have different bodies with different needs is ridiculous. I've never heard anyone claim that "women have the monopoly on cancer." As far as I know, both women and men can get cancer. Also, it would seem this bitch has never had a painful period. Jesus Christ, I'm a feminist, too, but I'll be damned the day I refuse medical attention (or even medication for menstrual pain) when I need it because of some conspiracy theory about the patriarchy against the women. What a load of shit.
- xcvbn rated 10 months ago
- Finally, a good feminist stumble. Has got a lot of thumbs downs though. The article is not perfect but at least it's a start.
- issthemagnficnt rated 10 months ago
- this article sucks.
i rarely give something a thumbs down, btw.
"fuck em, we spoiled them the minute we let them wear pants."
this article is bogus. severely slanted and ridiculous.
- droe82 rated 10 months ago
- From the page: "The media rarely mentions them, and then only to explain how lowered testosterone levels compromise men's sexual or athletic performance."As a reasonable person who's a man and who's actively interested in his own health, it's difficult for me to explain how irritating this kind of advertising is to me. If I wanted to I could characterize it from an almost masculist viewpoint, saying that it tells me that if I'm not concerned with including everyone around me in my sexuality and don't see watching a bunch of people whom I don't know and whom I have no control over throw a ball around as an interesting way of spending hours on end, I'm not a "real man."But this sort of advertising is not really against men or women. This sort of advertising is just retarded. The gender roles behind it are just retarded. You can characterize retarded advertising in any number of ways. I presume that this person characterizes it from a feminist perspective because that's how s/he characterizes everything, whether it's applicable or not or just maybe, kind of obliquely like the problem mentioned.
- jynxpup rated 10 months ago
- Um, shouldn't we be happy that women are encouraged to be aware of the risk of breast cancer and heart disease? If breast cancer didn't get ten times the media coverage of prostate cancer, then feminists would complain that they consider a man's health more important than a woman's. There's no winning, is there?
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