An interesting article that takes a different tack from most: why not innoculate boys against HPV, not just girls? It relates to the sexual determinacy aspect of my previous post. Thoughts?
http://www.slate.com/id/2232537/
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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Read the article recently.
It made me consider and reconsider some complex issues, in combination with another article that Maureen Dowd wrote for the Times on feminism in relation to women's happiness, although I felt that both were dragged down with some lazy flaws.
It honestly made me ask far more questions on specifics in terms of HPV and the vaccine in question and so I need to get some more info. The economics of vaccinations is important to consider and was glad it was brought up. The larger issue of allocation of vaccines in general when supply and demand come into play, which is almost always, is one that isn't often discussed.
But I thought that Saletan threw out some lazy and hacky generalizations halfway through, which he got called on in the comments boards, and I thought it undermined an otherwise decent piece.
The economic questions appeared to refocus the gender questions, at least temporarily, as more of a side issue just as socioeconomics has increasingly sidelined other issues rooted in division, such as race and ethnicity, where it's not so much what colour your skin is, whether you have XX or XY, or who you sleep with, as much as it's about how much money is flowing at any given time and keeping a roof over your head.
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