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Is Female suffering seen as more important than male suffering? It is isn't it?

European Society which cares for all people is much more successful then American Society.

Helping those who cannot help themselves is something that every society should do, regardless of how that society is organized. I was not speaking about people with real disabilities, rather entitled whining brats who think the world owes them something.
 
Is Female suffering seen as more important than male suffering. It is isn’t it???

Even as babies, it seems female suffering is seen as more important than male suffering. For example, this study found that parents take longer to pick up baby boys than baby girls when they cry:

Goldberg and Lewis "Play Behaviour in the Year-old Infant: Early Sex differences"
Abstract at:

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And then there are events like the media uproar when 276 school girls were kidnapped by the Islamic Terrorist Group boko harem:



The kidnapping of the 276 predominantly Christian schoolgirls by Islamic terror group Boko Haram is an atrocity, but it is not the first atrocity they have committed. It is just the first one to garner any interest in the West. A girl’s right to an education has become an important pillar in western ideology, and an important pawn in the battle against Islam.
The recent kidnappings have enraged western sensibilities, because they desecrate hallowed ideas about female equality. The West responded with a self-righteous selfie protest using the hashtag ‘Bring Back Our Girls’. Michelle Obama, Cara Delevingne, Jessica Biel and Anne Hathaway have all involved themselves in it.

But Boko Haram – whose name means ‘western education is sinful’ – does not distinguish between the education of girls and boys. In February, the group attacked another school. After boarding up every exit, its men seized 59 boys and gunned them down or cut their throats with machetes. Some buildings were sealed up and set alight. The girls were ordered to go home, abandon their ‘wicked’ schooling and seek husbands.

There was no protest for the boys.


And then there’s the fact that women attempt suicide 3 times more often than men yet men have a suicide rate five times greater than women.
http://mentalhealthrealities.blogspo...tween-men.html

What accounts for this discrepancy? I believe men are more motivated to actually be successful when it comes to suicide because men know there won’t be any sympathy for them if they fail, and women have an attempted suicide rate 3 times greater than men but fail to succeed four times as often because they know people will be sympathetic towards their suffering when they fail.

It seems the suffering of women is seen as twice as important as the suffering of men. For example, men get similar rates of prostate cancer as women get breast cancer, yet breast cancer gets twice as much funding.


''''''''''This year [2007] 218,890 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. By comparison, 178,480 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in women. Not a huge difference, but a new report finds that for every prostate cancer drug on the market, there are seven used to treat breast cancer, and federal spending on breast cancer research outpaces prostate cancer spending by a ratio of nearly two to one.

– Business Week, via the National Prostate Cancer Coalition""""""""

As an egalitarian, I believe male suffering should be seen as just as important as female suffering.

Yes ryobi male suffering is absolutely not seen as important as female suffering.
 
I was not speaking about people with real disabilities, rather entitled whining brats who think the world owes them something.

Most people in prison or in the street in USA would have been on well fare in Europe and Canada and Australia.
 
Those poor sad men, whining piteously about women having it easy. Grow up!
 
Those poor sad men, whining piteously about women having it easy. Grow up!


Do you think boys having their throats cut with machettes, being machined gun down, and being locked in a building and burnt alive deserves less attention than girls being kidnapped so they can't get an education???
 
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Helping those who cannot help themselves is something that every society should do, regardless of how that society is organized. I was not speaking about people with real disabilities, rather entitled whining brats who think the world owes them something.

You generally don't do things like play division 1 college football, graduate with honors with a Bachelors of Science, Earn one of two high distinctions in Applied Molecular Biology or start and run your own business when you're an entitled whining brat who thinks the world owes you something....meh
 
Compare the death rates between breast cancer and prostate cancer and then the amount of money spent on each. Should provide some sort of an answer.

The last 25 years have seen the boob slowly edging out the pumpkin as a symbol for fall. With breast cancer so visible, it is interesting to note that last month was prostate cancer awareness month. In September, however, the color blue did not engulf the country in any similar manner — despite claiming a comparable number of victims.

Breast cancer receives much more research funding, publicity than prostate cancer despite similar number of victims | The Daily Caller
 
Those poor sad men, whining piteously about women having it easy. Grow up!

More and more men are not ashamed that I do not fulfill the traditional male gender role -- likewise many women are not ashamed of not being ladylike in a traditional sense.
 
You generally don't do things like play division 1 college football, graduate with honors with a Bachelors of Science, Earn one of two high distinctions in Applied Molecular Biology or start and run your own business when you're an entitled whining brat who thinks the world owes you something....meh

Eh. I couldn't play division 1 ball because I was too busy working 2 jobs, 1 full time to pay for college. ;)
 
The last 25 years have seen the boob slowly edging out the pumpkin as a symbol for fall. With breast cancer so visible, it is interesting to note that last month was prostate cancer awareness month. In September, however, the color blue did not engulf the country in any similar manner — despite claiming a comparable number of victims.

Breast cancer receives much more research funding, publicity than prostate cancer despite similar number of victims | The Daily Caller

This is one of those topics that the very people complaining about the inequality of things are the very people who could easily amend it.

It took years - decades - for breast cancer awareness to take off and it has done so because, in part, it's a marketed effort that has a significant financial benefit to companies . . . and further: Anybody who wants to can host any event in support of breast cancer.

So . . . what have YOU done to further awareness of Prostate Cancer and the importance of routine examinations and the fight against it? What are MEN doing?

Answer? Absolutely nothing.

So - that's why that and other types of cancer aren't given as much attention: no one's insisting it be given that attention.
 
Of the dozen or more cancer deaths in my family over the years I don't recall a single one due to breast cancer. Thus I've always argued that I believe breast cancer receives disproportionate attention. I see it as a joint effort, though; the male fixation on breasts (plural) coupled with the emotional demands of women.

There is a comment in the above about expendability of males and I very much agree with that. What was surprising to me was how often colonial males, even those married with children, would board a ship in pursuit of trade and/ or adventure or leave for weeks or months at a time on military expeditions, leaving the wife to fend for herself. But if we consider how often this country has engaged in war, approximately every fifteen years or so (?), consider also that there were probably very few periods of long term peace in our pre-colonial past, it's very possible that each and every past generation engaged in some form of battle. And so I think males, particularly young males, have probably always been expendable.

But hey, a man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do. And if there is anyone who does not believe that, I would challenge you to step forward or forever hold your piece! It's about testosterone. No wonder then that females have been trying to temper our behavior since the dawn; they afford necessary balance.

I also think it is because men don't talk about prostate cancer, but women will talk about breast cancer. I know a number of women who are now deceased that died of breast cancer.. who would have been my age, but I don't know any men who died of prostate cancer. There are some men who I know who died of cancer, but for the most part, it is not mentioned what kind of cancer. The few excepts were leukemia and lung cancers. No one mentioned prostate cancer.

There seems to be a stigma about men talking about getting prostate cancer.... they don't share that personal information. I bet if it was talked about in public the way women can talk about breast cancer , the attention would be equal.
 
I also think it is because men don't talk about prostate cancer, but women will talk about breast cancer. I know a number of women who are now deceased that died of breast cancer.. who would have been my age, but I don't know any men who died of prostate cancer. There are some men who I know who died of cancer, but for the most part, it is not mentioned what kind of cancer. The few excepts were leukemia and lung cancers. No one mentioned prostate cancer.

There seems to be a stigma about men talking about getting prostate cancer.... they don't share that personal information. I bet if it was talked about in public the way women can talk about breast cancer , the attention would be equal.

Prostrate cancer is not all that common either because far too many males die young of other forms of cancer. My own grandfather, btw, died of prostrate cancer.
 
Prostrate cancer is not all that common either because far too many males die young of other forms of cancer. My own grandfather, btw, died of prostrate cancer.

The chart of prostate cancer mortality shows that it increases drastically once someone hits 75+.. when people are older.
 
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