How many women will be wearing prostate cancer ribbons for Father's Day?
On Mother's Day, many men wore pink ribbons to support the fight and research against breast cancer. Many men marched in breast cancer research funding walks and parades. In fact, the Major League Baseball players (all men) used pink bats and wore pink armbands in the games on Mother's Day to support this very same cause. Now, how many women will be wearing prostate cancer ribbons for Father's Day? Let me take an educated guess based on previous patterns, and say: "nowhere near as many men that wore breast cancer awareness ribbons." Further evidence that women today are far more sexist than men. Let me also state that there is roughly the same amount of reported cases of prostate cancer per year as there is breast cancer cases (slightly over 200,000 for each) -- the number difference between the two diseases only being a few thousand. Prostate Cancer Ribbon Pin: http://www.phoenix5.org/advocacy/prostat... The above link doesn't work. Prostate Cancer Awareness Ribbon: http://www.phoenix5.org/advocacy/prostateribbon.html littleviv2000: You failed you address the issue or even answer the question. You just wanted to vent because you had no valid rebuttal against my truthful argument. How do you know not many people view Women's Studies or Yahoo Answers? Yahoo Answers gets advertised on national television. Obviously a great deal of people view this forum. More people read than reply. Lee: You sound like another angry man-hater. Men aren't hiding "prostate" cancer and acting like it doesn't exist. If I was hiding it then I wouldn't have asked this question, genius. And, my grandfather lived 12 years longer than the age that the average woman in the US lives.
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prostate cancer is so scary for men....more the test then having it for most, but there is a blood test that can indicate if there is a reason to be concerned.....how many women will wear a ribbon I would guess fewer then men wearing breast cancer
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My cause is autism, which affects four times as many boys as girls. But my heart goes out to men suffering from prostate cancer; my beloved grandfather died of it a few years back.
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Sh*t, you're right! My dad just had his cancerous prostate removed last year, and here I am doing nothing to support further research. And, I totally agree with your point that women today are more sexist than men (I'm a woman, and I try not to be biased either way). Que Righteous! Kudos!!
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If there was a ribbon for this, you can bet I would be wearing itl! I love my Dad.
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Just because it has a ribbon doesn't mean that people are as aware of it as they are things such as AIDS and Breast Cancer. They are "advertised" every which way you look. Television, magazines, and even food and clothing products. Maybe if it got put out there more this wouldn't be an issue. Someone needs to take it and run like they did with these others. They are all tragic and it is sad that some diseases don't appear as important as others. I would wear one if I had it.
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I don't wear ribbons for anything or buy Chinese-manufactured "Support Our Troops" ribbon magnets because they're pointless, hypocritical (why don't you just donate your money or time?), and irritating.
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Prostate cancer is a serious problem and increasing awareness of it will help fund further research. I don't think it's fair to make a connection between women not wearing these ribbons and women being sexist, though. This blue ribbon campaign has not been established long, and now that there is a ribbon for so many different causes, people are not paying as much attention to them. If you believe women are sexist, fine, but you will have to find some other evidence to convince me.
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The whole point of your post is to try & prove women are more sexist....which you haven't done. You can't measure that by who's wearing ribbons & who isn't. But you've already made up your mind so why bother asking?
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Problem is that men have been hiding prostrate cancer and act like testicular cancer does not exists. That women only have these problem and that a men and his balls and masculinity are exempt from all diseases. Sad thing is that men do not live as long as women, because women realize their weaknesses and men do not.
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