DragonRacer wrote...
MearasNZ wrote...
kobayashi-maru wrote...
Agree chamroeon mens health not taken seriously especially prostate cancer. In UK it bigger killer than breast cancer but get very little publicity. Although recently it began to change- not much - but having male celebs publicise issues help. Wish testicular cancer stuff was less 'carry on mens health' though, woman wouldnt stand for boob jokes for BC so why men get treated differently is beyond me.
As a woman, I can honestly say that I do not think men's health issues get anywhere near the same degree of publicity and awareness campaigning that women's issues (breast cancer, cervical cancer, etc) get. Testicular cancer can be just as deadly if left untreated, and it definitely needs all the extra attention that Movember can give it.
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Movember definitely has my support 
Kudos to you BW dudes for taking your positive action!
As a fellow female, I also agree that women's health issues get a disproportionate amount of news coverage compared to men.
I had never heard of this before, but thank Nathan and BioWare for bringing it to my attention. My uncle had prostate cancer, so this is certainly a movement I can support with a personal passion.
Not that health problems for men should be ignored, but there might be reasons why there is so many campains to improve women's health. Research on typically male health problems far outweights the resources that is used on typically female health problems. Indirect resources on male health is also disproportionally larger, something that is often a part of the system rather than being gender-specific itself (although possibly a side-effect of disproportional resources among the genders), but also in situations where one should have expected proportional resources, like being in the same role, same kind of job, even same workspace, can it be disproportional resources.
Also, the news coverage isn't always constructive, making women's health a problem, or luxury, and men's health just logical priority. Obvious example is the debate about contraceptions in USA (and elsewhere) where it is contraceptions
for women. The logical question is: For women to do what? And will they be alone in doing it? So why isn't it the men's responsibility where they leave behind...their...
stuff? Still, it doesn't work like that in the practical life, so those that will eventually carry most of the results have to take the responsibility, wanted or not (not exactly a new dilemma, just look at most religious texts).
Anyways. Keep up the good work. Information, awareness and resources to solving any health issues is a good thing
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