The Men's Rights Movement: I Just Don't Get It.

[Zazzy]

Estimated new cancers by sex and age. http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content...037114.pdf

Prostate cancer spending. http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding...s/prostate

Breast cancer spending. http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding...ots/breast

Same budget - similar mortality rates - double the spending on breast cancer.


October is breast cancer awareness month. Anyone know which month is prostate cancer awareness month offhand?

Ever see a prostate cancer commercial, let alone products and promotional drives?

You do know that breast cancer doesn't only affect women, don't you?

Yes. One of the fastest growing cancer demographics is males with breast cancer. Also, the average age for death from prostate cancer is about 80 (to breast cancer's average age 68), with WAY fewer young men dying of prostate cancer. When younger folks die of a cancer, it's harder for us culturally.

And breasts are culturally more important than prostates. Prostates sell no beer and grace no porn. Breasts are important in our society- to men perhaps more than women (Is that true? We'll see how that flies). I'd argue that it's our cultural fascination with breasts- not an oppression of prostates- that is at play here.