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Note head and neck cancer, has less link to HPV than cervical cancer (as far as I am aware) It doesnt matter if men or women are in power, they will always look after women and children (girls mainly) first. ![]() This also serves as a case of gynocentriscim. feminists would write thousands of articles, the usual Guardian would be on it. if they only chose to vaccinate boys, they political outcry would have been so huge as well as claims of men doing laws for men etc. However, politicians and medical drs are not stupid. This means they are at risk of penile and anal cancer far more than lesbians ![]() Also gay men have penetetrive sex with their penis which is far far more likely to give STIs than female lesbian sex. In fact, if you were to ONLY pick one gender it would make much more sense to pick boys, since oral sex between men is FAR FAR more likely to lead to STIs that female oral sex due to the penis being inserted deep into the mouth. 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But the perception is that they are misogynistic for not "treating women right" (I guess the idea is they aren't actively "nice" to women maybe because they secretly hate them).Īs a result, I wonder if the MRM is attacked because the idea of literal gender equality seems sexist to a lot of people. People who aren't benevolently sexist towards women tend to also not be hostilely sexist towards women. Hence why this view of sexism is described as a misperception. The same people who think that a woman's place is in the kitchen are also the same people who go out of their way to be chivalrous towards women. Part of the reasoning for this, according to Yeung, is that people assume hostilely misogynistic people aren't generally "nice" or give beneficial preferences to women. In these studies (containing 6 experiments in total), it was found that when women aren't treated better than men, people see it is as unfair and sexist towards women. 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