International Men's Day is apparently controversial

[TragicMonkey]

The important thing is not fixing any problems, it's arguing over which problems are more worthy of being fixed. (Not that those more worthy problems will actually be fixed, of course, the goal is just to acknowledge them.) This is the way humanity advances.

 

[wareyin]

The important thing is not fixing any problems, it's arguing over which problems are more worthy of being fixed. (Not that those more worthy problems will actually be fixed, of course, the goal is just to acknowledge them.) This is the way humanity advances.

Also, the goal is pointing out that if one group has problems, we are not allowed to acknowledge that any other group has problems. In Victim Olympics, there can be only one!

 

[Aepervius]

Also, the goal is pointing out that if one group has problems, we are not allowed to acknowledge that any other group has problems. In Victim Olympics, there can be only one!

It is the same fallacy that people use to say , for example that, India should not spend money on satellite because not everybody has toilet or suchlike.

Yes there are still women related problem in some domain, but that does not mean we should stop investing into men's problem until *all* and every single gender inequality are gone. In fact doing so would create another inequality.

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

What, like the higher rates of male homicides and suicide? Or that prostate cancer research gets about half the funding as breast cancer research, despite causing a similar number of deaths?

That seems fair, women have two breasts, but men only have one prostate.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Men do get breast cancer.

Yep, And what about prostate cancer? That's truly gender specific, I think, and there's no prevention for it I know of.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

That is a bit harsh, look at all the work men have put into developing and improving irons, cookers and washing machines.

 

[pharphis]

Is it a fact and important in the context of this thread that women's societal problems are caused by men?

Considering this thread is about men's issues and those who want to silence the discussion. . . no, it isn't.

I'm also still waiting for your answer

 

[John Nowak]

Also, the goal is pointing out that if one group has problems, we are not allowed to acknowledge that any other group has problems. In Victim Olympics, there can be only one!

Unless someone else is worse off. Then suddenly it's okay to acknowledge that first world problems are indeed problems.

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

This day is a total ripoff! Nobody sent me any international men!

We did! They're stuck in customs now. They keep doing back to the end of the line for another frisking.

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

Yep, And what about prostate cancer? That's truly gender specific, I think, and there's no prevention for it I know of.

And the standard exam technique is one of those things, if you don't like it you find ways to avoid it.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And the standard exam technique is one of those things, if you don't like it you find ways to avoid it.

Dx'd in 1999, only had three exams since then. "No need to check, I got it."

VA hospitals are often linked to teaching unis. This means you'll sometimes be asked to be a "demonstration" subject for "You gotta see this one" types of things. One doctor asked if his students could check my prostate. I think the look on my face was sufficient answer, he quickly changed the subject.

 

[pharphis]

Dx'd in 1999, only had three exams since then. "No need to check, I got it."

VA hospitals are often linked to teaching unis. This means you'll sometimes be asked to be a "demonstration" subject for "You gotta see this one" types of things. One doctor asked if his students could check my prostate. I think the look on my face was sufficient answer, he quickly changed the subject.

Did it match any of the faces in your avatar? Perhaps the nose picking one?

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

Was it the "sure, but you'll draw back a bloody stump," look?

 

[Information Analyst]

And the standard exam technique is one of those things, if you don't like it you find ways to avoid it.

Really? I've only ever had a blood test for it.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Was it the "sure, but you'll draw back a bloody stump," look?

I gave him my best "CPO" glare. That's made some young men run.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Really? I've only ever had a blood test for it.

Being tender is a red flag. The docs evidently aren't worried about that. What's your PSA numbers, if you care to share?

 

[Information Analyst]

Dx'd in 1999, only had three exams since then. "No need to check, I got it."

VA hospitals are often linked to teaching unis. This means you'll sometimes be asked to be a "demonstration" subject for "You gotta see this one" types of things. One doctor asked if his students could check my prostate. I think the look on my face was sufficient answer, he quickly changed the subject.

Teaching hospitals will be on any learning opportunity like a rash (no pun intended). A few years back my mother crushed her larynx against a grab-bar when the bus she was on braked suddenly to avoid a taxi. When she got to hospital the consultants were ecstatic because it's such a rare injury these days (used to be a lot more common before mandatory seatbelts), and so a great experience for the student doctors.

 

[Information Analyst]

Being tender is a red flag. The docs evidently aren't worried about that. What's your PSA numbers, if you care to share?

No idea. It was just the once when I signed up with a new GP a few years back. That said, my father got diagnosed with PC a few month ago, so maybe the next time I get offered a check-up by the surgery (free, obviously) I'll make the effort to go along.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Teaching hospitals will be on any learning opportunity like a rash (no pun intended). A few years back my mother crushed her larynx against a grab-bar when the bus she was on braked suddenly to avoid a taxi. When she got to hospital the consultants were ecstatic because it's such a rare injury these days (used to be a lot more common before mandatory seatbelts), and so a great experience for the student doctors.

I'm on one of those tracks right now. Surgery Clinic screening coming up on the 3rd. The intern that did the original consult had never seen shrapnel scars, so she was "thank you!" when I sorted some out for her. (You have to know which ones are scrap metal exits to get an eye for them. (Evidently they're some kind of unique, I have no idea as I don't spend much time looking at my back.)

 

[Belz...]

Personally, I don't care for any "international day". I just find these things arbitrary and uninteresting. My problem is with the hypocrites and/or liars who pay lip service to equality but think that we should exclude men from the equation.

White men.