Can we have an event for prostate cancer next?

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I very rarely see events driven for men, I understand that men are the work horses of our society and as such we expect so very much of them and yet we do not given much in return. One in nine men above the age 40 will be diagnosed with this life ending disease, worse still infection claims even more men that get it successfully removed with the highly dangerous prostatectomy.

Not to delegitimize breast cancer but a woman can have portions if not her entire breast(s) removed and live with little complications, most men are lucky to beat prostate cancer and live through the recovery.

My late husband might still be with me today, if this dragon was slain years ago.

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Absolutely agree. #bluelucio

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Genji should be the mascot for obvious reasons…

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I’d rather not joke about this.

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They can’t feminists will lose their “insert bad word here” might even try to sue blizz…

Edit: sorry for your loss if your story is true :frowning:

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would be awesome.

sprays could be weird

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Yeah okay, no. As a feminist I would gladly support this.

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Soldier 76. As old as he is now, no mask, in his old blue Overwatch coat and outfit from his Origins skin.

The coat is visibly worn and a bit frayed and instead of any medals or anything, just a cancer awareness pin on the chest and a bandana tied around one arm bearing the logo for whichever prostate cancer research foundation they support.

Old Soldiers Never Die.

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I can get behind your suggestion BigProf.

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Kinda unrelated but you do realise that a ‘feminist’ is literally any person who believes both sexes should have equal rights. If you don’t identify as a feminist then, by definition, you don’t believe both sexes should have equal rights…
But anyway, just wanted to point this out, let’s not start a 500 post argument or something.

To Op, I like your idea :slight_smile:

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yes pls, I lost a loved one to this because they were too afraid to get checked :cry:

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Fun fact we men can get breast cancer too, meanwhile only us men can get prostate cancer. Dont act like we’re being deliberately excluded, cuz we’re not.

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Lol what, breast cancer events are for women, not men, and it also matters the funding per person suffering from that cancer. If you look at funding for each cancer, and divide it equally among the people who have that cancer and average out the men vs women funding, we are most definitely being exluded

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Well men can get breast cancer too, since we do have a small amount of breast tissue, and if they find a cure it’s not like they’re gonna deny it to men or something.

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Equality is about equal rights. Feminists are about pro women, no if’s no but’s about it.

Feminism is NOT pro equality. The feminism movement may have come from equality roots, but if feminism was about equality, it would be called equality and NOT feminism.

Simply put, feminism is pro females; nothing more. If it were about equality then it wouldn’t be called “feminism”.

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It is called “feminism” because it started at a time when women were pretty much property, so the emphasis on women’s rights was necessary to actually raise these rights to the same standing as men’s rights. We’ve come pretty far, but we are not quite there yet, so the name is still appropriated.

It isn’t the bogeyman that some people might try to paint it as.

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I’d rather not have a debate about feminism, I legitimately just want some events for the cancer that took my love one’s life.

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Looking up the definition of feminism shows that feminism is:
the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.
So it seems you are right, however this doesn’t make feminism any less of an issue. Females definitely do not have the same rights as men. (Men also don’t necessarily have the same rights as women, but feminism refers to females so)

Perhaps a better phrase would be egalitarianism, “the doctrine that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.”
Another thing to point out is that as language develops, definitions can be altered based on common use. There is a large percentage of people that claim feminism is synonymous with something like egalitarianism, and because of that I believe it’s fair to say the word “feminism” can be used in the context I mentioned before.

But, as I said before and as OP just said, please don’t start an argument. I’m not going to reply any further. Have a nice day :slight_smile:

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I was just thinking earlier today that it makes more sense to focus on cancer research as a whole, rather than limiting ourselves to one particular form of cancer. But I do believe any treatments for breast cancer would probably apply to other forms as well. Where they differ would be mostly in prevention. Or am I completely wrong about that?

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There are a lot of areas in life where men are waaaay behind now (ie family/children) and I don’t see “feminists” jumping to defend men for supposed equality.

Feminism is about women, not equality. Their initial agenda might have been about equality, but that agenda has long since died since a lot of the feminists are so fixated on woman’s rights that they couldn’t give a stuff about the negative impact it has on men.

Because women’s rights have gone up and up so much, it’s no longer relevant to call it feminism if it’s supposedly about equality.

Ever heard the word “Toxic Masculinity”? That seems to be a feminist term. Feminism isn’t what people ideologically want it to be. Once upon a time it was, but no more.

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