Timothy Birdnow

I had a friendly disagreement with a liberal college professor from Boston yesterday who claimed much more money was spent on men's health issues than women's, and she pointed to prostate cancer as proof women get the short end of the stick. I pointed out that women have whole branches of medicine dedicated solely to them; where is the equivalent of an OBGYN for men? There isn't one. The closest you will come will be a urologist, and most urologists treat both sexes.

But the cancer business was just plain wrong and I said so; I asked how much money was spent on breast cancer over prostate cancer. She dismissed the point, being certain that the conventional wisdom (in liberal circles) had to be correct. But is it"

I found these links and copied the pertinent passages:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5836059/

"The NIH spending for prostate cancer in 2015 was US$288 million, which is less than half that for breast cancer , despite the fact that 40,000 patients died from prostate cancer, just 20% less than breast cancer patients."

https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/p/prostate-and-breast-cancer-funding

"The US government invests about 2.5 times more money into breast cancer research than it does prostate cancer research, averaging around 700 million dollars"

https://news.med.miami.edu/study-points-to-significant-disparities-in-federal-cancer-research-funding/

"Dr. Kumar noted that breast cancer research received approximately 50 times more funding than stomach cancer in 2018"


https://www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/news/research-funding-lacking-for-cancers-with-high-mortality-rates/

"Jan 22, 2024 · Cancers with the most funding were breast cancer ($3.75 billion), leukemia ($2.00 billion), and lung cancer ($1.60 billion)."

Editor's note; the last doesn't even put prostate cancer in the top three, as you no doubt realized.

Granted men can get breast cancer too but it's much more rare in men than women. Women cannot get prostate cancer since they don't have a prostate.

But the point is the claims women get ignored by medicine because we livein a patriarchal society is a pure shibboleth, something repeated over and over by feminists to make women feel aggreived. But it's clearly not true.

I did see where some women tried to argue that breast cancer is underfunded compared to prostate cancer because more people die of the former rather than the latter, but even that point falls short as the first quote proves.

No, if anybody gets the short end of the stick it's men.

I can prove this assertion quite easily, just by pointing out the disparity between male and female lifespans; on average men in America die at the age of 74.8 years as of 2022. Women die on average at 80,2 years, according to the CDC. And while young boys tend to be reckless and get killed, pumping up the numbers, young girls these days are pretty much equally reckless. Oh, and I might add that life expectancy for white males is declining despite advances in medical care. Now why do you suppose that is?

One helluva poor patriarchy, don't you think?

The fact is women always did have a pretty good gig. In bygone days the men had to provide and the women kept the house and raised the children. That was a BIG deal; providing meant chasing down dangerous animals, and later working in the fields until you just about dropped from exhaustion, or working deep in the bowels of the Earth as a miner, or 14 hour days in a steel foundry. The women had to work hard, no question, but it was cleaner, safer, and less soul-crushing labor. Only when technology made most jobs relatively pleasant did the situation reverse, and immediately women began demanding access to what men did. But then they complained about "patriarchy" and how mistreated they were - especially when the men refused to start doing women's work along with their own.

So often women complain about men not helping with the housework, but they forget it's usually the men who are taking care of the cars, doing repairs around the house, cutting the lawn and gardening, etc. There is a division of labor by necessity. But that is forgotten, especially by the feminists who seek to make women dissatisfied. The reality is the changes to society promoted by feminists is what made women dissatisfied; they have been forced to largely act like men. They know in their hearts this is wrong, and long to be treated like a lady, not another dude in the locker room. But they can't let go of the desire to usurp men's roles because they have been taught their whole lives that they have tobe "tough as men" and act just like men. But they don't like being treated like men when they seek to compete.

Basically the women's movement monumentally screwed over women. And the lies still come. This business about funding only research that benefits men is one example.

At any rate if women want a better deal they need to stop pretending their are mistreated. It's no picnic being a woman, but it sure isn't any better being a man. Just ask any trans individual; it sucks to the point where a lot of guys now are trying to change their sex just to be accepted and not treated so terribly.

THAT is the reason why trans male-to-females are on the rise.

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