During the pre-1960s racism, society focused exclusively on improving life for whites, even though blacks as a group were far worse off.

Similar to this component of racism is today's new sexism: when it comes to heart disease (and to most other diseases) society has become exclusively focused on women, even though men as a group, especially black men, are far more vulnerable to the disease in every age bracket. Even thousands of men, including many doctors, take part in the fight against women's heart disease but not against men's. How many women campaign against the disease in the group that is really more at risk? How many reports, commentaries, and editorials on women's heart disease speak as if men literally did not exist?

That's the new sexism. What would you call it if women developed heart disease about ten years sooner than men and died of it at a higher rate at every age, and everyone focused on men's heart disease?

See "Women's Advocates Wrong About Why More Women Than Men Die of Heart Disease" at http://tinyurl.com/pkkajz

See also "Health Disparities Persist for Men, and Doctors Ask Why" at battlinbog.blog-city.com/...w_york_times_repor.htm