Fundraiser For "White Male" Illness Dropped 241
gubachwa writes "The student association at Carleton University in Canada recently voted that Cystic Fibrosis was a charity unworthy of receiving money raised during orientation week fund-raising activities. The reason behind the decision, as given in the motion on which the student association voted, is that Cystic Fibrosis 'has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men.'" I'm speechless.
what's sadder here? (Score:4, Interesting)
That they did it, or that anyone cares?
Shouldn't we stop fund raising for prostate cancer because it only affects men!
Discrimination? Someone needs their head adjusted. Maybe raising funds for condition xxx isn't a good idea, but that's a ridiculous reason to stop.
Re:Update (Score:4, Interesting)
Cystic Fibrosis affects women, it's just that women tend to die faster than men who have it. Thus, more men appear to have it.
Someone must have looked up a bunch of statistics, and drew their own conclusions without actually putting them into context.
Yay for critical thinking.
Re:what's sadder here? (Score:3, Interesting)
What's sad is male-oriented products, e.g. razor blades, with packaging touting their contribution to womyn's diseases like breast cancer. When is Gillette going to give a piece of my razor-blade money to fighting prostate cancer?
Re:what's sadder here? (Score:5, Interesting)
What's sad is male-oriented products, e.g. razor blades, with packaging touting their contribution to womyn's diseases like breast cancer.
My wife handles most of our shopping. They need to convince her which brand to buy, even if I'm the ultimate user.
CUSA is routinely insane (Score:3, Interesting)
The Carleton University Students Association being stupid is pretty much par for the course.
When I was at Carleton, one of the CUSA VPs was very outspoken when CUSA banned a political magazine which ran an ad featuring a fairly tasteful photo of a woman naked from the waist down (not a terribly sexy photo, and not a photo that showed anything exciting), claiming it was exploitative to use nudity to sell a product. When the next month's issue of said VPs favorite GLBT rag came out with an extremely graphic condom ad which if I recall correctly featured two naked men (which left nothing to the imagination), he said that THIS ad was obviously not exploitative, and was just trying to sell a product.
This is also the student organization which decided last year to ban anti-abortion clubs, which regardless of your thoughts on abortion still reeks of censorship.
I like to this of CUSA as kind of like a senile grandmother. She comes out whenever you have guests, says a bunch of politically incorrect nonsense, embarrasses everyone, and you just try to pretend she isn't there.