How Macho are You Now?
Long ago, doctors used to not treat prostate cancer right away because it was a slow growing cancer. In this environment, my grandpa got prostate cancer. But later, in about 1987, they reexamined the cancer and found that it had spread. It spread to his testicles. The doctors had to remove his prostate and his testicles. He lived for 12 more years after that, if you can call that living. I only learned this last November, when my dad told me, because he just learned. He had also just been diagnosed with prostate cancer and had his prostate removed in January. He talks about it all the time, and I'm really glad.
According to the BBC, men don't want to get checked for prostate cancer because they are worried that it isn't "macho." Just a bit of how our idiotic gender norms harm everyone.
In a related story, we are first led to believe that having daughters leads to prostate cancer, then told that the results are inconclusive, but not until the end of the story. The media just can't seem to help itself when it comes to the birth of girls and negative consequences. Then again, maybe I'm just sensitive. I wouldn't be if so many places in the world didn't see the birth of a girl as a disappointment.
2 comments:
I hope your dad is OK. It seems like if they catch it early enough it isn't quite so bad - I seem to remember my grandpa having his prostate out when I was small, and now he's 97. It probably happened because he was surrounded by all us females.
How?! How the fuck would having a daughter have ANYTHING to do with prostate cancer? correlation != causality, people!
My dad seems to be doing well. He is recovering from his surgery, but I nearly forgot that when I went home and almost accidentally punched him [lightly] in the gut.
And see, it is those pesky X chromosome sperm that "feminize" and destroy men. :rolleyes:
A friend of mine mentioned that sometimes, when he is in the bathroom, and in a stall, he will be very silent and just listen to guys, and often, the guys will have a really hard and painful time peeing. It is either that or their masturbating, but I doubt that.
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