I preface what I’m about to write with the following. In absolutely no way are my words to be taken
as one cancer is worse than another. No
way could one version or the other be better or worse than the other. A blog that would even attempt such a
comparison would end up with no readers or worse.
However, when it comes to men and women, that
comparison can be made and though we men can read maps one of the differences between
men and women is men are the dumber.
Watching the news the other night a neighboring city has
adopted “pink” trash bins so they now have blue for garbage, green for recycle yard
junk, yellow bins for recycle glass, another yellow bin for metal and now a
Susan G. Komen pink as an option. By
all means bring the awareness on. There does need to be increased awareness of
all cancers and many other maladies. My
point though is we all know what pink signifies. How does that make women smart and men dumb
though? Well, can you tell me what a
light blue wristband represents? Women
will talk about things men cringe and shirk from.
Prostate cancer, as cancer goes, is the number two cause of cancer
death in men. I didn’t know that until I
was told I had a particularly nasty version of the crap. There are symptoms of prostate cancer [though
I suffered none ] up until the last thirty months ago I couldn’t tell you what
they were
Ask yourself why you know what pink means, run for the pink,
dance for the pink, cook for the pink etc. and why you don’t know what light
blue ribbons mean. The answer to that
question is actually very simple. Men
are dumb and speaking about any affliction is taboo.
You will never hear this at the boys Friday night poker party.
“Uh Bob I’m having some troubles in the bedroom. Do you have any ideas?” or “George it takes
me forever to pee that ever happen to you?”
Women reading this are laughing. Women will talk about any and all. Women actually have to have an examination
that involves either the word stirrups or the physical smooshing and mashing of
their breasts. AND at their poker game
they talk about such things. Men have to
suffer 15 seconds of, well, I’m not sure what you would call it. Discomfort?
Then at the Friday night poker game they make nervous jokes about the
exam.
If a man does have the level of relationship that allows
difficult conversation with another man,
which I thankfully do, that seems to make outside observers immediately become
confused to the men’s sexuality. If a
woman has that level of respect and caring from another of her same gender then
we men think “wow they are best friends.”
Because of the color pink women and all the education the
color represents, their husbands and public are educated in preventive options,
symptoms and alternatives should the worst happen. The ignorance of blue and lack of
communication between men leads to a higher death rate.
To be sure, prostate cancer can blind side you like it did
me but it is a small percentage of the whole that that happens to. Speak up guys. Talk to your buddy, he might know something
that you don’t. Oh yeah, you can talk to your doctor too. Don’t worry having the conversations won’t affect
your map reading skills.
