Email this article to a friend  The ITT List  Wednesday May 26,
2010 7:39 am  Weekly Pulse: Prostate Health is Girly and Other
Health Care Paradoxes  By Lindsay Beyerstein  by Lindsay
Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger  This week's healthcare
news was full of mind-bending paradoxes: Prostate health is
girly, abstinence-only education works through failure,
"principled" libertarian Rand Paul would protect all-white lunch
counters but ban private abortion clinics, and more.  Prostate
health is girly  The Prostate Cancer Foundation recently rolled
out one of the most bizarre and ill-advised public health
advisories in the history of advertising. The takehome message?
That there's something sissy, or god forbid gay, about getting
checked for prostate cancer.  The ad features a bunch of retired
sports legends in a suburban living room, knitting. They proceed
to quiz each other about their prostate exams.   Jessica Valenti
of Feministing has the transcript:  Man 1: How did that
prostrate exam go today?  Man 2: Ve