philosoraptor42

Here's a typical report from "The Onion":

This doesn't even come close to the insanity of a recent report from The Daily Mail which feels more like satire of sexism rather than a real life example of it. (BTW you can click here for the original article, but I'd rather you didn't since I've provided the contents below and it'd be best if you didn't increase the number of hits to the page.)

Daily dose of housework could cut risk of breast cancer!

A daily dose of housework could cut the risk of breast cancer, research has shown.

Women who stay fit and physically active after the menopause are 17 per cent less likely to develop the disease than those who rarely leave the sofa.

But not any sort of exercise will do. Scientists prescribe 'moderate-to-vigorous' activities such as heavy housework, gardening and hiking.

Tennis, cycling, swimming, brisk walking and fast dancing, aerobics, and jogging also cut the mustard.

But 'light intensity' pursuits such as bowling, table tennis, fishing, slow walking and light gardening do not make the grade.
Previous studies have found physical activity to be a protection against breast cancer, but this was one of the first to look at different kinds of exercise at various stages of life.

Researchers asked more than 110,000 postmenopausal women to rate their activity levels at different ages.
Over the next six and a half years, women in the group who had done more than seven hours a week of moderate-to-vigorous exercise were less likely to develop breast cancer than inactive women.

Light exercise in later life did not help, nor did exercise at younger ages, the journal BMC Cancer reports.

Dr Tricia Peters from the U.S. National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, said exercise may affect hormones in a way that helped prevent breast cancer.

She said: 'Our findings could help inform the mechanisms of the physical activity-breast cancer relationship.'

I love how the article focusses on women and gives a whole list of activities they think women might be involved in, but never once does the article imagine that, (like many people who spend all day in an office, for example) women might decide to get fit and healthy by going to the gym. Sure it includes cycling and jogging (presumably including cycling and running machines) as activities which 'cut the mustard', but why bother with those when just doing your 'duty to your husband' by giving him a nice tidy house to come home to does the trick? Ugh!

I especially like the image that goes with the article: