I think you are right.I think that campaign on the MUS thing as a women's issue may be the only way to counter this. It is huge now and the pace of it just seems to be gathering. I know it also affects a lot of men in the same way, of course it does, I am not suggesting for a minute that it doesn't, but this campaign needs to be wider than ME, wider than invisible illness, it needs to get a big section of the mainstream population fired up and up in arms.
If the focus were to be on the gender issue with MUS, for every woman affected, there are husbands, fathers, sons who are supporters and may also join the fight. To have any real effect it has to impact as a wider section of the population as possible.
Generally, unless people have first-hand experience of ME, either themselves, a close family member or a friend, people don't generally want to know. But if a campaign, for example, raised the issue of women's cancer being missed because of MUS, this is far more likely to cause concern and a reaction.
Everyone cares about cancer, everyone knows someone with cancer and a majority of the population has a fear of getting cancer or family getting cancer. This is also true. Cancer can and is missed because of these MUS ideas and policies. Cancer is also missed by doctors who tell women symptoms are all in the head, just because they are female, or that it is just their hormones.
And emphasize that lack of investigations instigated by primary care cause many deaths
And that all this MUS stuff is just laziness. It's a cop out. It's not scientific. It's make-believe. It's wasting tax payers' money. It's killing people. Etc etc