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People with cervical cancer. Eve Appeal.

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Smurftastic · 17/11/2020 14:29

Eve Appeal is at it again, on FB:' Globally nearly 600,000 PEOPLE are diagnosed each year with cervical cancer and approximately 300,000 PEOPLE around the world die each year from this disease (....)'. I commented on their previous posts, I don't feel like getting into a fight with woke cervix havers again. I'm going to unfollow them now. Are there any women's health charities that still use the word 'women'? I'd like to support them instead.

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Mikamee · 17/11/2020 15:14

Funny how it’s never ‘people with prostate cancer, people with testicular cancer’ isn’t it?

aliasundercover · 17/11/2020 15:13

I couldn't spot a single use of the words women or woman

Woman is used a couple of times: "We asked an older woman ...", etc.

However, on the "How do gynae cancers affect men?" page the word 'men' is used 8 times - that's certainly more than the word "woman" is used on the whole site Confused

PurpleHoodie · 17/11/2020 15:09

The Eve Appeal may as well just turn themselves over into being a prostate cancer charity.

It means the privileged women (ironic) running the place still have a worthy "charity job" to put on their CVs for polite society dinner party chitter chatter. Or they could get a real job.

They really don't care about other women anymore.

Greencoatblue · 17/11/2020 15:02

I'm so tired of UK organisations dealing with female health conditions using the term people, while those dealing exclusively with male conditions use the terms men/male. Prostate cancer and Orchid Male Cancer Awareness come immediately to mind, but I'll bet there are loads of others. Can anyone identify a charity/organisation that refers to people with a penis/prostate/testicles for example? There are fistula charities that refer to women throughout, but they work in less privileged countries where they absolutely know what a woman is, and that comes down to biology not feelings.

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 17/11/2020 14:48

And it doesn't matter at all that a lot of women won't know what a cervix is or why it should concern them ....

Shedbuilder · 17/11/2020 14:48

I just checked their website. Thousands of words, page after page of info — and I couldn't spot a single use of the words women or woman. It's quite a feat.

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Smurftastic · 17/11/2020 14:46

Thank you for this Gncq. It's so infuriating. My hand is itching to comment on it, but I know I'll get attacked by the 'be kind' crowd in a second. I'm just so tired of it. Soon my daughter will not be a daughter but a 'future menstruator' Sad.

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Minty82 · 17/11/2020 14:44

Oh good grief...this is completely insane.

Gncq · 17/11/2020 14:42

Mind you, I did just feel compelled to check my blood pressure and was HUGELY pleased to see the NHS still has it's head on.

People with cervical cancer. Eve Appeal.
Gncq · 17/11/2020 14:38

Fucksake