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Originally Posted by Daradon
And testicles aren't? Also think of the social stigma, it's all over our language. 'That was a ballsy move.' 'Does he have the balls to do what needs to be done?' Etc.
I agree with all your points on the other side, I guess I'm just saying that cancer seems to affect all equally. I don't think any sex (or race or age etc) has it any easier than another.
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Clearly testicles are involved in fatherhood etc. However, they aren't used for nurturing a child (a very intimate moment for mothers that choose to breastfeed), they aren't part of your everyday outward appearance to the world,and don't tend to be an intimate part of a man's opinion of himself. Indeed some (a lot) of it is cultural.
I also don't think when it comes to this that cancer affects both sexes the same. I believe that overall the rate of breast, cervical and ovarian cancer are signficantly higher than testicular and prostate cancer. A 2011 survey of ~250,000 adults had the overall cancer rate about 2% higher for women (9% of women reporting some type of cancer, 7.2% of men. source: cdc.gov). That doesn't make other cancers less important, far from it, and I believe what you were really going for is that "cancer sucks". Indeed it does having lost a parent, 3 grandparents to it, friends, parents of friends etc (everyone knows several people who have lost this battle..I'm not trying to run up a "scorecard" or anything). But for the topic at hand I think this type of decision is harder for women in a psychological sense. We can agree to disagree on that. But I think we can fully agree on cancer sucks and psycholgically and physically it is a hard fight.
A fight that is hard to win.
I sure wish we could win it every time.
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