No, seriously, it's true: men and women are different.
These discoveries are part of a quiet but revolutionary change infiltrating U.S. medicine as a growing number of scientists realize there's more to women's health than just the anatomy that makes them female, and that the same diseases often affect men and women in different ways.And here I thought men and women were identical, and that any perceived differences could be chalked up to discrimination! What a fool I was. But still, even though men and women are psychologically and physiologically different, we should treat them exactly the same, right?"Women are different than men, not only psychologically (but) physiologically, and I think we need to understand those differences," says Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
I can see the new speeches coming from the Women's Center already:
"It's because of the patriarchal attitude of the male-dominated medical/military industrial complex that only now are we discovering that men and women are truly different. It is for this reason we insist that all future medical funding be earmarked exclusively for research and care of women's diseases. Also, we want strict quotas for entering med school classes because only female doctors are able to truly understand the medical issues that face women today. It is only by these tactics (that all intelligent people have to support) that we can right this terrible wrong that has been perpetrated on the women of the world."
Or is that a bit too far-fetched?