The war on women has been going on long, some interesting things I learned today, [View all]

Now obviously, some of these things don't "prove" a war on women, but the case can be made. This all started when I started watching a television program on lobotomies (it fascinates me). There were many more women subjected to this versus men because they were deemed as "difficult." http://www.npr.org/2005/11/16/5014080/my-lobotomy-howard-dullys-journey


And then I watched a program on pellegra, an affliction that hit people in the south back around the turn of the century. It was caused by a lack of nutrition due to a diet that consisted of mostly corn, which lacks the nutrient niacin. And again, there were many more women who carried the affliction than men because it is thought that they deferred their protein to their husbands to make sure they could go out and make money (fairly, there is a theory that it also is linked to estrogen). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra

And then I read about the link between women and strokes. Women are much more likely to have strokes according to this article. http://www.stroke.org/site/PageServer?pagename=women

And then I read this. This is what prompted me to post. The scientific community ignores women and their problems alarmingly. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/07/drug_problem.html

How can we as a society allow this to happen? Obviously, men and women have different biological makeups, but yet we decidedly choose to test on men versus women. It sickens me. And the GOP thinks they know all when it comes to a woman's body. Yet we don't as a whole begin to know.