70% of patients who suffer psychsomatic illnesses are women
For the life of me I can't wrap my head around how women don't flip out when they see shit like this. Elle magazine is a woman's magazine that's basically promoting the idea that women are nuts. That is crazy. I can't understand how educated women in the god damn field of medicine accept this and I'm so confused how a woman can write a book and promote these ideas in this day and age. To me it's fucking disgraceful.
Oh wait I do understand. Money
That's actually a fact. But that doesn't mean it's being disrespectful Io women any more than a disease that affects more men means it's disrespectful to men.In a perfect world.
However, you make a valid point as far as how men and women are perceived when they have a disease that's more prevelant in men than women.
For the life of me, I can't think of a disease that affects more men than women other than a prostrate problem but that doesn't apply.
EDIT I just realized in a sense it does apply if you are talking about gynecological problems vs.prostate problems.
I remember going to the University health clinic in the seventies and had to have a procedure, which is now discredited, to help prevent frequent bladder infections.
I don't remember the context or how it came up but he said the reason God made women with a shorter urethra and are more prone to UTIs, is a punishment for Eve giving Adam the apple in the garden of Eden. During the exam, you could hear someone coming out of the treatment room next door. He got up, opened the door to where we were and shouted loud enough for everyone in the treatment rooms, in the hallway and probable people in the waiting room to the guy walking down the hall he had seen before me, "You smell, take a bath!" Needless to say I didn't go back. If it had happened today, I would have reported him. But I was young. Sigh!