Comment by roywiggins

The reason why breast cancer became a cause celebre is that it really was a taboo disease that couldn't be talked about. Cancer generally, but breast cancer even more. There was a time when "awareness" really was important because people were not aware.

That progress has happened with it doesn't mean much to things like endometriosis, which has a mean time to diagnosis of ~a decade, a point made in TFA. People commonly suffer undiagnosed with it for ten years due to a collective failure. Finding a cure might be very difficult, but fairly rapid diagnosis really shouldn't be, it's not like Alzheimer's.

The numbers presented are stark: "Yet, it stands almost entirely alone in terms of how little funding the condition receives relative to the absolute number of lives it irrevocably alters for the worse: 10% of women (or 190 million) worldwide, with only $29M earmarked for them."

That's really bad. Like, really bad. It's not surprising that women might get very mad about this state of affairs.