Is women's health getting pushed aside?

"Medical care for most men is one-stop shopping: a trip to a general doctor for a physical examination that includes full preventive care. "

While women always have to go to a specialist to get check ups regularly or for infections, men always can get a quick fix just from down the street. It says in this article from The New York Times that "new studies have shown, with tests like Pap smears are often overlooked, particularly if the doctor is a man." I think a lot of this has to do with a lot of men often being "simple minded", because they can get all of there questions and answers from one person, and they think women do too. Which is not true.

Is women's health not getting the attention it needs? In the article it talks about how many men as well as women find themselves visiting more than one doctor as they age, women's care is decreasingly getting worse from adolescence on. "We favor provision of care by any type of primary care physician, but we feel that none of them right now are trained well in women's health," said Eileen McGrath, executive director of the American Medical Women's Association. I think that this is a recurring problem in the United States and should be fixed.

The article also says that Dr. Lurie and her colleagues at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis surveyed the records of more than 100,000 women and found that female internists and family practitioners performed twice as many Pap tests as their male counterparts and ordered 40 percent more mammograms. This shows that women are more precautious to women health issues than men are. Does this mean you shouldn't go see a male doctor? All doctors are trained the same and learn the same myths about women's bodies, so you may feel more comfortable with a women, but you may not be better off.

So next time you go to your doctor pay close attention to see if you're getting all of the care you need, and make sure you're getting the right treatment because this is a growing problem in society today.

Another banned commerical.

Sitting here thinking about what I could write about, I was on YouTube and came across this banned commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcQ88EWso3w&feature=related

This is a commerical for the new Nissan Pathfinder. This whole commerical is a women in a car and all you see is her breasts bouncing. As i keep watching the commercial I noticed that it finally tells you what the commericals for and at the very end in little letters on the bottom you see, "New Nissan PATHFINDER with front independent suspension." What I don't understand about this commerical is why they need to use bouncing breasts for 30 seconds just to tell everyone about their new car? I know when i first saw this commercial I was forced to keep watching to see what this commercial was even for. Even the person who put the commerical on you tube named it "what is this commerical for?". So, the hidden question, who cares? Almost everyone I know watches or has seen TV. Who wants their kids seeing that commercial? I know i don't. Who wants their little boy seeing breasts bouncing for 30 seconds and have little girls think that that's the only way they can have attention? Thanks to commercials like these this is why young girls have so much pressure growing up, not only is it rude, but its deeper than that.

Titties and Beer...

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Titties and Beer is a song by Rodney Carrington and I understand this is supposed to be a comedy act but that doesn't change this act from being degrading to women. Women have been objectified for centuries and Rodney Carrington is making a living doing it. With lyrics such as "look at that redheads tits" and " The first gal I tipped was flat as hell but had a nice ass that was sent from God" its hard not to be offended. Personally I see no humor in objectifying women and talking about their bodies as a piece of meat. With a quick look at some of his other songs the content isn't much different. Such hits as " Show Them To Me", "A Beer Is Better Than A Woman", and " Mommas Got Her Boobs Out". Even the titles of his songs are degrading. Rodney Carrington may be a comedian but he is not funny to me.

Has Chris Brown's fame gotten to his head?

I'm sure many of you have heard Chris Brown has been arrested on alleged assault charges. He turned himself in after a warrant was issued for assaulting his well known girlfriend, singer Rhianna. Both cancelled their Grammy performance because Chris Brown would have been arrested on the spot.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b99069_police_looking_chris_brown_after.html


It's disgusting that some men feel its acceptable to hit a woman, under no circumstances should a man ever lay a hand in anger on woman. Has Chris Brown lost his mind? Most people should be as disgusted as I am at Chris Brown, that he would do something like this. He is a very popular singer in today's pop culture and this is nothing more than bad publicity for him. This is not a type of action that works in your favor, in fact it turns fans away. People should not be fans of people like Chris Brown whether he likes it or not he is a role model to children all over the world. It is not acceptable for people to think this kind of behavior is alright by any means. This has shown that he either has a very misguided psyche or he really has bought into his own hype and believes he is bigger than law and or morals.

Share one with a friend. Or two.

So, I was watching television the other day and came across a Bud Light beer commercial that i thought was outrageous and extremely inappropriate. As sad as it sounds about 90% of those commercials involve beer and a women, even though I'm not too sure as to what beer and women have to do with each other. There was this commercial I really wanted to write about but as I was looking for it on YouTube i found one that was even more disturbing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH7bjIajc0A

This Guinness commercial is to imitate a woman having sex with three men at the same time. Luckily, short after this commercial came out it was banned from TV.

I think that it's very offensive how in order to make a commercial about beer it has to involve women, sex, or both. Usually these women are all over men who are drinking their beer or are half naked holding it. Do men really think if they drink a certain type of beer it'll make more women want them? It makes no sense to me. Its not like only a couple of commercials are doing this but mostly all of them. At least all of the ones I've seen. I . Not only is it the beer companies doing this but its the same with Red Bull and Axe commercials. If you wear Axe or drink Red Bull you'll have women all over you. How many commercials have you seen where its directed towards women and all it does it try to make you belive that if you wear their product you'll have all the men that you want? I can't think of one.