[rglovejoy]

> Honest question: If this were an article about leukemia death rates would you have posted about prostate cancer?

No, because both men and women can die from leukemia.

[steanne]

both men and women can die from breast cancer, too. in fact, men have worse survival rates because it's generally diagnosed later in the process, because there's so little awareness.

[tptacek]

That's their point: that debates premised on a zero-sum contest between the sexes arise in any story about women's issues on HN.