Why are women being guilt tripped into looking after mens testicles?

[QuentinWinters]

Just saw this advert. I am quite irked. Women are constantly getting pressure for smears, mammograms, and we should check our boob regularly or we will DIE and it will be our own fault.

Why are are we now also getting guilt tripped into taking responsibility for mens testicles?

Surely most men play with their wangs enough to spot changes. How about they grow up and go to the doctor themselves, without needing mummy to sort it for them?

I doubt very much there are ads in mens loos asking them to check their partners boobs and nag them to go to the doctor if something changes.

And let's not even mention that the poster is pink.

Seriously. Just

It is exclusionary.

What about the men who don't have a partner?

Is their mother supposed to do it for them?

And what about the men who don't have mothers?

Oh, and did a pp really suggest the ad was focused on getting women to nag their male partners? Because we all know how popular and positively received nagging is...

I thought the ad was advising nagging. Because it instructs women to get their husband to the GP. I thought that was because the advertisers think there are a subset of men who wont go unless mummy makes them.

I know there are men out there who bury their heads in the sand about medical stuff but the answer to that is to focus on that issue, not make it women's problem to fix.

Where was this seen? I want to know so I can find out who commissioned it and complain.

Btw an old boyfriend told me that men always go to the doctor's if they suspect their tackle is going to fall off. I wonder what research prompted this ad?
Yes - all the men I know have been extremely aware/concerned about any changes to that area. That's why I think advising us to check is ridiculous.

Oh and BTW - how are you supposed to know if they are heavier??!

Ok just seen it seems to be from itsinthebag.org.uk which is some sort of awareness organisation/charity for men's health.

I definitely want to know who wrote it.

Can't say i have ever seen this advert in any toilets I have used. I am more then capable of checking my own balls and dare I say more qualified to detect any abnormalities. I sometimes help my wife (at her request) to check her boobs for anything untoward.

The advert is clumsy but I don't get the anger. My cousins wife detected a lump in his balls that thankfully turned out to be benign but it still required surgery. Looking out for each others health is not a bad thing

itsinthebag.org.uk/

Oh look, you can get pink T shirts too

Yes, Quentin, I know the ad was advising nagging. I wasnt clear in my post that I meant the pp was being approving about the suggestion. Which I thought was a weird thing, because obviously men love being nagged.

I have seen similar posters in toilets before about men checking their partners breasts for lumps etc.

Let's see one then. You should be able to find most public health awareness posters online. Find me a public health awareness poster that places responsibility on male partners to check their female partners breasts for lumps and then to ensure they follow up with a GP. It doesn't matter if it's any of the ones you've seen or not. Any such public health campaign poster that's been put in men's spaces in the UK by any cancer prevention charity or government/local authority public health department.

Looking out for each others health is not a bad thing

Agreed. A campaign along the lines of “don’t just check yourself, check your partner too” “if you find a lump tell your other half” “boobs balls moles” would be very different. That’s not what this is, though.

There's just no need to mention partners. It is exclusive. Not all men HAVE partners. Better to spend the money on pushing the message to ALL men.

And the pink? Wtf? I DO appreciate that the charity has good intentions but they're very misguided in this campaign.

can anyone point me to the poster advising men to check their partners' breasts? No?

Yes, Quentin, I know the ad was advising nagging

Isnt nagging considered domestic abuse?

Fucks sake cant men take responsibility for anything themselves.

If someone finds something whilst having sex or whatever that's one thing.

But actively telking women to check their partners balls ....

As if wives girlfriends and mothers dont already have enough to do without taking on a partner's thinking for them too.

It's almost as bad as those stupid face book posts reminding us to take some time.to ourelves so we dont burn out. No offers to take over the jobs that wont get done if we decide to hit the spa

Why is everything our responsibility all the bloody time

I think this is a good and loving thing to do.

That is one of the most offensive posters I have seen in a while.

Sorry floral wasnt having a dig

It's almost as bad as those stupid face book posts reminding us to take some time.to ourelves so we dont burn out

Maybe I should sent it to Man who Has It All

So men can say you must handle my balls every month and I have to have a good feel of your tits it's demanded by the experts

What about male friends etc should women check them!? Not all men have partners.

Does it need to be a female partner? With the pink and all. Gay men need to find a woman to do it?

Dads brothers uncles cousins? It doesn't say partner does it? Any man who needs checking! Should be provided with a woman to do so.

Women have to take responsibility for literally everything don't we. Fucking Eve.

Their own site gives a list of changes

Pain
Heaviness
Hardness
Change in size
Lump

Asking women to take responsibility for this, when clearly it will be much more effective for the man to do it, is ridiculous. Unless she has to give a consultation too 'so have you noticed any pain recently'. I mean come on.

Fucks sake cant men take responsibility for anything themselves.

Oh look, more shit work for women to do.

It's an awareness campaign set up by survivors of testicular cancer, not a divine order from God.

Some sense of perspective maybe?

My DH would soon notice if I had a breast lump, but that doesn't stop me regularly checking myself. In the same way I am familiar with the shape of his testicles and would tell him if they felt different. but that does not replace his own tests.

MenuPlant

If your dribbling rant is what you inferred from that poster I feel sorry for you. It is clearly not an instruction for any man to demand from any women a testicular examination. It is an awareness campaign and their website has lots of useful advice.