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"Society doesn’t care about men’s issues." Please. My wife recently had some health issues due to a condition that primarily affects women, and I went with her

"Society doesn’t care about men’s issues." Please. My wife recently had some health issues due to a condition that primarily affects women, and I went with her to her medical appointments. The level of casual dismissal I saw regarding pain and symptoms from numerous (male and female) doctors was absolutely shocking. While I've certainly had doctors fail to resolve a medical condition before, nothing like the lack of respect I saw had ever accompanied my interactions at a doctor's office. If you genuinely believe that "society doesn't care about men's issues", at least compared to women's issues, you're living in an absolute fantasy world.

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50656E6973 7y ago
Your anecdotal dismissal supports the parent commenter's point.
- clmul 7y ago
  It's fairly well-known that there is more medical knowledge about men, and women are affected in different ways by diseases, about which more knowledge is needed. See for example this article: https://www.ft.com/content/7864ae80-9597-11e8-95f8-8640db9060a7 https://www.ft.com/content/7864ae80-9597-11e8-95f8-8640db906...
  - 50656E6973 7y ago
    Indeed. And yet life expectancy is still lower for men, and is getting worse. Can we not talk about that for a moment?
    - clmul 7y ago
      Sure we can, but I don't think it's very productive to start arguing that society doesn't care about men's issues. I don't immediately see what society has to do with the lower life expectancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Sex_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Sex_difference...
      - benchaney 7y ago
        > and is getting worse You missed a pretty important part. I don’t see how that could be the result of anything other than society?
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wavepruner 7y ago
I'm a man and I have a condition that is poorly understood by the medical community. The lack of respect is glaringly obvious when I interact with nurses and doctors. I have discussed this phenomenon with hundreds of men and woman, so I do not think it's gender/sex based discrimination.
benchaney 7y ago
The existence of women’s issues doesn’t invalidate GP’s point. It’s not clear to me why you think it is relevant at all.

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50656E6973 7y ago

Your anecdotal dismissal supports the parent commenter's point.

clmul 7y ago
It's fairly well-known that there is more medical knowledge about men, and women are affected in different ways by diseases, about which more knowledge is needed. See for example this article: https://www.ft.com/content/7864ae80-9597-11e8-95f8-8640db9060a7 https://www.ft.com/content/7864ae80-9597-11e8-95f8-8640db906...
- 50656E6973 7y ago
  Indeed. And yet life expectancy is still lower for men, and is getting worse. Can we not talk about that for a moment?
  - clmul 7y ago
    Sure we can, but I don't think it's very productive to start arguing that society doesn't care about men's issues. I don't immediately see what society has to do with the lower life expectancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Sex_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Sex_difference...
    - benchaney 7y ago
      > and is getting worse You missed a pretty important part. I don’t see how that could be the result of anything other than society?

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wavepruner 7y ago

I'm a man and I have a condition that is poorly understood by the medical community. The lack of respect is glaringly obvious when I interact with nurses and doctors. I have discussed this phenomenon with hundreds of men and woman, so I do not think it's gender/sex based discrimination.

benchaney 7y ago

The existence of women’s issues doesn’t invalidate GP’s point. It’s not clear to me why you think it is relevant at all.