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> medication is only tested on men That's pretty clearly sexism against men, e.g. viewing men as disposable. Remember we test drugs on mice before humans, and
by klipt 4y ago
> medication is only tested on men
That's pretty clearly sexism against men, e.g. viewing men as disposable. Remember we test drugs on mice before humans, and that's not because we like mice; it's because they're cheap and disposable.
Imagine we only tested drugs on women. People would definitely see that as sexism against women, if not outright abuse of women! There would be endless news articles about women who suffered permanently debilitating effects of the drugs that were tested on them. There would be feminist protests to stop testing drugs on women.
- mcv 4y agoYou are very quick to jump to a judgmental conclusion about this. And a wrong one, in this case: if drugs is tested on men, that means it's suitable for men, but may not account for physiological differences between men and women. This is a serious issue that has fortunately been getting more attention lately. The drugs aren't being tested on men instead of mice, they're being tested on men instead of women. The reason for that is that men have more stable hormone levels that don't fluctuate over the month and therefore give more reliable test results, but that also means that these treatments don't account for the fluctuating hormone levels of women. I don't know where you live, but in most countries people aren't being forced into these sort of tests against their will. You make it sound like you're living in a totalitarian dictatorship where people are dragged off the street for dangerous experiments that haven't gone through a rigid testing process yet.