Kicking. Squealing.
1. Haha, now after the Susan G. Komen Foundation has pissed off feminists – after abortion rights were ostensibly placed secondary to women’s overall health outcomes – the organization’s push for universal mammography has come under question. I recall some anti-feminists, Keoni Galt comes to mind first, pointing out Komen’s bogus mammograms several years ago. It’s only an issue now after Komen fell on the wrong side of Planned Parenthood.
2. Roosh pointed out via Twitter, “wolf whistling” could be outlawed through Europe. I’m not even going to criticize Europe or feminism or anything besides pointing out that I am bearish on a society in which wolf whistling is something that has been determined to be something that needs to have police resources pointed towards it.
3. Buzzfeed (and others) ask whether an NBC commercial aired after Gabby Douglas’ gymnastics win which depicted a monkey doing gymnastics is racist. No, is the answer. Fucking dolts. The commercial has been airing since the beginning of the games. If Gabby Douglas had not made the all-around finals and/or if the lily white Russian girls or Douglas’ American teammates had won the gold the commercial would have still aired in that segment. Pure fabricated media and the ad/revenue generating clickthrough bait that comes with it (which I’m contributing to here, sorry).
4. Entitlements are crowding out private investment.
5. I guess Swedes are asking if two months provides enough paternity time for new fathers. I just have no idea what child-related things a new father could partake in.
Mammograms are a cruel hoax; a sloppy screening test. Mammograms do not diagnose anything; they SCREEN for disease. Like any screening test, the more sensitive, the less specific. So almost all positives are false positives when done indiscriminately. Many takers will receive false positives, which leads to complications, like needless anxiety, more tests and biopsies, more hematomas, scarring, and even needless treatment of putsy, quiet tumors that would result in no mortality. Also, the lead time survival advantage for early diagnosis is very very small in all age groups.
PSA is another example of a screening test with many many false positives. The US Preventative Task Force (USPSTF) is the most reliable data source for public health screening because it is composed of primary care MDs, who’ve actually done boots-on-the-ground screening. In contrast, Koman is a political organization .
A father could take an older child out of the house and let the mother stay home with the newborn. They get stir crazy being in the house all day.
I regret getting my first mammogram for all the reasons jz listed. I assumed it would be a routine screening like a pap smear, but a second mammogram, a biopsy, and a month and a half of nightmares and anxiety later, and I have lots of bills and possible scarring, but no cancer. I’m grateful, of course, that the biopsy sample was negative, but the fact remains that I never had cancer, never – of course – had symptoms of cancer, and then entire ordeal was unnecessary. My doctors and family completely disagree with me, but the whole experience felt like a scam. “I’m looking at your house, and there’s a small possibility it MIGHT have termites. We can do $5K worth of tests to see if you might lose your house to termites, or you can take the risk that the whole structure could come down on you. Your choice.”
@grerp
Sounds like a bad mechanic experience. Probably a good reason to consult with at least one other doctor (or at least ensure there’s not a financial incentive for the diagnosis).
A friend of mine just had a newborn and he kept working through most of it (I think he took a week off after the baby was born). But he was a total mess for a few months until the baby got into a groove with sleeping and eating. With the kid waking up every couple of hours it’s difficult to get any consistent sleep. 2 months off might be a lot, but I could see 3-4 weeks as being reasonable. It would never go over here though.
The monkey was doing a male gymnastics routine.
Note that now with Obamacare requiring cost reductions in health care, tests are starting to be criticized as unnecessary. That doesn’t mean PSA tests and mammograms aren’t unnecessary, it just means that they will only be eliminated due to politics, not due to good medical judgement.
I’ll hazard the guess that the wolf-whistling initiative is stealth anti-multicult. I wouldn’t be overly surprised if a cheap knockoff of the NAACP — is there an EAACP? How could there not be?– opposed it on the grounds that it’s a racist attack on Turks, Pakis, Somalis, etc.
I love it when feminism and the multicult go head to head. SWPLs are pre-Homeric in their capacity to compartmentalize their brains. Can’t admit to yourself that People of Color are more sexually retrograde than you? Just isolate the offending behavior from the agent of that behavior and voila, you’ve broken the double bind. Ultimately this stance is a little hard to keep up–”It’s not blacks/Mexicans/immigrants we don’t like, just everything they do or think.” But at that point there’s always some fast food chain to boycott to take your mind off little things like total logical inconsistency.
Chuck, a while back you linked to an English translation of Hans Asperger’s highly interesting 1944 monograph on the disease named after him, but I haven’t been able to find it through two search engines or your site’s search bar. Could you point me in the right direction?
Sorry to veer off topic.
@gerp, sorry to read of your mammography adventure .
I can understand how you use the word “scam” . At the physician level, doctors are more motivated by CYA than revenue. Doctors unconsciously prioritize their recommendations like this:
1. CYA
2. patients’ best interests
3. revenue.
The linked essay on Koman elluded to other screening technologies such as “biomarkers” . All screening tests will generate many false positives when tested on wide swaths of people indiscriminately. The more sensitive a test is, the more false positives will result; there is no escape.
The anti-wolf-whistling movement is definitely directed against immigrant “youths” who make life miserable for white women in certain areas of European cities.
See this surprisingly honest article from, of all places, the Guardian. (Not completely honest, just a bit more honest than usual when it comes to the “youths” and their annoying habits.)
The Guardian actually admits that “most” of the harassment is by North Africans (a big step for them!); but if you follow up to the Belgian article they link to (in French), the original source goes further says “95%”, i.e. “the overwhelming majority”, not just “most”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/03/belgium-film-street-harassment-sofie-peeters
Roosh also thinks the US Government orchestrated 9/11. He is a moron.
What is your outrage about the Swedish fathers deal? Jesus. Should everyone just work 24/7 in your ideal world?
uh, what outrage, Dr. G? my two sentence description indicates general confusion on the issue. not outrage.
G, if you can’t read or don’t understand what words mean your comments go in the trash.
So you can’t understand why a father would want to spend time with his newborn child? Fucking idiot. Keep deleting my comments you hack.
[Chuck: It's obvious that I'm in your head which is why you scour every single post here for some bone of contention. Perhaps refrain from visiting the blog. I provided a link and a brief non-polemical comment. You, of course, read way too much into it because you're ass hurt that I don't agree with your social progressive stance. I could have linked to the discussion of some research I've blogged about in the past which discussed how male professors who took paternity leave basically spent their leave doing work. In other words, they either got bored of staying home with their wife and newborn or they didn't have much to contribute. But I didn't think that some twat would emerge to make a big deal out of the link. Was wrong.]
Comment for you above, G.
Chuck,
It sounded like the paternity leave could be used anytime in the first eight years of the child’s life. My guess is most men do not use it at the same as the mother, but after she has gone back to work. It does not take two adults to care for one infant, so it would be a waste to both be home with a baby who sleeps most of the time.