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

Either there's an incel forum discussing this thread somewhere or there are socks.

Either way it's bloody tedious.

Thank you for gatekeeping what other women are allowed to be annoyed by, Goose

Come on, we're being told its annoying because it makes women the caretakers of mens balls so we have more wife-work.

Getting annoyed about this sort of thing is bad for you, its just not at that level to deserve it.

Its a bunch of people who though they should try and raise awareness of the need to check for testicular cancer probably thought, gee, maybe we can reach more men about this by raising awareness in women, since women are used to doing this sort of thing already.

If you can't see the inherent sexism in there then you can't. But I can, and it annoys the hell out of me.

YMMV.

Getting annoyed about this sort of thing is bad for you, its just not at that level to deserve it.

It’s these tiny bits of everyday sexism that are part of the problem.
All these little things build up together to make it seem fine that women are subservient.
Yes this one poster won’t do that but years of similar things all add up together.

maybe we can reach more men about this by raising awareness in women, since women are used to doing this sort of thing already

Why are women used to doing this sort if thing already?

Why aren’t men used to looking after their own health?

Same as pp who said they can’t see their football boots in front of them. It isn’t that they genuinely can’t, it’s that male privilege has taught them they don’t need to, they can just ask the nearest woman who will do it for them. And that it is completely normal to do so, and if said woman refuses to do so, then they are being awkward and not being helpful. It’s not going to hurt just to help, is it, they can just look and tell me where the football boots are.

So posters like this do matter. They reinforce that male privilege that they don’t need to bother themselves, their mother/wife/girlfriend will do it. Same as they’ll make the dentist appointments, and fill in the school forms, and remember to buy bin bags, and and and...

It’s not that men can’t, or even that they won’t, it is they are socialised into almost thinking this stuff does itself, it’s so small and trivial.

Getting posters like this changed to make men realise their health and their bodies are not someone elses responsibility may seem like a small thing not worth anyone’s time, but if we don’t, nothing will change and men will continue happily in their own little worlds where surfaces wipe themselves and children register themselves for nursery.

Come on, we're being told its annoying because it makes women the caretakers of mens balls so we have more wife-work.

I am actually less annoyed about the checks. What really bugs me is the "make him go to the GP". In reality going to the GP about his testicles is only his responsibility

All The small things which fly under the radar add up to a huge and overwhelming message, we absolutely should call these small things out

Bluebluezoo- your post reminded me of the woman last year who had entrusted her husband to apply for the entrance exam for the school their son had worked desperately hard for. The husband missed the deadline. It all came good in the end - they let him take the exam and he passed but I just canno ever imagine a woman letting her child down so badly.

but I just canno ever imagine a woman letting her child down so badly

Unfortunately, many mothers have done far, far worse.

Sorry, forgot the implicit good and caring part of that sentence.

Anyway, back to bollocks