Such attempts to focus on homophobia and discrimination serve to take the focus off the self-defeating sexuality of many gays, who in fact do not consistently practice safe sex themselves, yet continually warn others that we are in the midst of a mainstream epidemic. There exists a similar misrepresentation of facts by militant feminism with regard to women's diseases. However, according to the National Cancer Institute, funding for breast cancer is more than six times greater than for prostate cancer. She indirectly attributed these deaths to the oppression of patriarchy. As it turned out, all were in error.
Depression is another disease that has been politicized by feminists.
In 1992 a Harris Poll was commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund, asking 2,500 women and 1,000 men about their physical and mental well-being in the past week. In actuality, the Commonwealth Fund, a feminist organization, had interpreted the answers to the survey in a highly skewed way. Nobody seemed to know how they got that figure. The woman in charge of the poll had left the Harris organization. Finally, Sommers reached Lois Hoeffler, who had done the interpreting.