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In reply to the discussion: If you think Feminism is not pro men, [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Let's explore this. Whose votes do you suppose were being courted by this "artifact"? "Pro men" Feminists or some other constituency?
I agree it was appropriate to expand the research on heart disease, and once they found that men and women reacted differently to heart disease, that's exactly what they did.
However, your observation is a poor justification for an office of Women's Health. One could make a better argument for an Office of Men's Health because 20 years ago, research on prostate cancer was almost nonexistent relative to the research funding for breast cancer despite the fact that the diseases caused roughly equal numbers of deaths.
Funding (public and private) for prostate cancer research and treatment is still comparatively meager and PSA testing, unlike mammograms are not free to the patient.