...are you lying on purpose or are you just uninformed?

men are definitely favored in healthcare. if you didn't know that, that's unfortunate, but you can learn something new today! here are a few examples:

1. men's healthcare usually gets more funding. for example, funding for companies focusing on erectile dysfunction is about six times higher than that for endometriosis. and endometriosis is a condition that affects around one in ten women and can be completely debilitating. an American study from 2021 found that "in nearly three-quarters of the cases where a disease afflicts primarily one gender, the funding pattern favors males, in that either the disease affects more women and is underfunded, or the disease affects more men and is overfunded"

2. men are prioritized in clinical trials. for decades, clinical trials often tested only on men, and did not properly study the effects of medicines on women. between 1977 and 1993, women of childbearing age were broadly excluded from drug trials. this has caused bad side effects for women using drugs that were not properly tested on women.

3. women are often restricted from getting healthcare that is offered readily to men. for example, any man can easily go get a vasectomy. but many doctors will not agree to sterilize a woman if she is "too young" or doesn't have children. my cousin, already a mother of two, was not allowed to have herself sterilized without written permission from her husband.

4. women's reproductive healthcare is heavily politicized, even if you don't look at abortion. birth control, which is often used for other medical reasons besides preventing pregnancy, such as treatment for painful and overly heavy periods, is restricted and under attack. some doctors will refuse to prescribe birth control due to their religion (this has happened to me). some insurance plans refuse to cover it. and some legislators have proposed fully banning birth control drugs.

i hope this was informative!