The medical community on literally every female specific health issue ever: “very common condition” “no known cause” “no known cure” :))))))
What the fuck is tumblr? Like honestly what is this? Do you guys pull shit out of the inner most depths of your rectum and then just throw it on your keyboard and have it turn into a post???? This site is something else what the fuck is wrong with you people????!?!?
Endemetriosis
Vaginal Thrush
Menorrhagia
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Fibroids
Very common conditions, causes are unknown or only speculated, long term cures have not been found. Most can cause chronic pain or discomfort, all can seriously impact your quality of life.
Men are so damn privileged they can’t even imagine female bodies have different healthcare needs than theirs and that our healthcare needs are important even if they can’t be affected by one of these conditions.
Endometriosis causes excruciating pain and is a leading cause of infertility. Thrush is extremely
uncomfortable, and expensive to treat repeatedly; over-the-counter preparations rarely completely eradicate it. Menorrhagia, which I
have, makes you anæmic. PCOS causes hormonal symptoms that are socially
difficult (facial hair, acne, hair loss, weight gain). Fibroids are so common, and are often treated with a hysterectomy.Add in fibromylgia, which affects 8x as many women as men, as well as lupus (and almost any other autoimmune condition), systemic exertion intolerance disorder (SEID), iron deficiency anæmia (all of which affect more women than men), and you have well over 25% of childbearing-age women globally living with chronic pain and tiredness.
Chronic pain is overwhelmingly experienced by women, and women are less likely to be taken seriously or given treatment by medical professionals. I went through two years of diagnostics to finally find out I had occipital neuralgia; I felt doubted when I described my pain at every step of the way, but was lucky to have a partner who was persistent in helping me get treatment.
Basically, this is a huge problem, and also one of the reasons I have been considering medical school.
patriarchy
The fact is, Rihanna doesn’t get dubbed as a feminist icon for the very same reasons her white peers do: the black female body is deemed as overtly sexual. So much so Miley Cyrus can derive a sexual identity just by associating with Blackness and Lily Allen can make a critique of hyper sexuality on our backs. Rihanna being Black and female must work from proving she isn’t just a sex object. Miley gets to be naked and feminist because it is presumed that she is “innocent” and that enjoying sex—for White women like her—isn’t the norm, but a revolutionary act. This was the justification for the rape of Black women, the very reason Saartjie Baartman’s genitals were carved from her body, to prove our inherently sexual nature and to prove the White woman’s asexual (and therefore, pure) one. When pop stars are declared to be shining examples of feminism while continuing a legacy of shaming and sexualizing black bodies, mainstream feminism is sending a clear message: we still ain’t women.
Lesli-Ann Lewis, “Why We Can’t Have Black Feminist Pop Icons” (via theprettyfeminist)
“She didn’t even think to ask me.” said Damian, later, a puzzled look of hurt on his face. “I mean, I was sitting right there. Staring at her. Deciding how attractive she looked. She could have just asked. Why didn’t she? I was right there.”
“It’s a shame.” he added, staring at someone across the room who had a bit of mascara on. “Such a shame.”
“Local Man Saddened that No One Gives a Shit about Conforming to His Personal Beauty Standards”
Laughing forever at the commentary.
i am really tired of the implication that people should simply forgive shitty men, especially shitty dads or shitty husbands/boyfriends or shitty brothers. i’m so bored how often this happens in media, how often it’s advised, how many times someone works towards ~repairing~ things, and how often they have to forgive a million flaws and it’s all good and healthy and therapeutic or whatever. i hate it. i hate when a “resolution” is forced. I hate it when people expect forgiveness or putting up with someone else’s selfishness is seen as extra good somehow. i loathe the concept of “daddy issues”. i hate that bearing the weight of men’s problems and pains are shoved onto women. i want to scream every time people talk about forgiveness and how hard it is for [those] men with their [whatever flaws they have] and what great men they really are and honestly fuck that, fuck them, fuck being forgiving fuck accepting or healing or whatever – for real life, for storylines, for character development, whatever.
speaking from experience i find it SO INCREDIBLY DISORIENTING when a female character “finds it in her heart” to forgive her dad/husband/boyfriend/brother for [terrible thing]. it’s so unrealistic to see this not really presented as an OPTION but an inevitability, the ONLY path in media.
it’s so so tiresome to be told by everyone and everything that when men fuck up and hurt others, we [women] should work to forgive them, otherwise *we’re* the broken ones.
So, would you mind explaining Gamergate?
Standard1. Man dates woman who makes a game about depression
2. Man and woman break up after a few months. She cheats on him maybe
3. Manbaby gets on irc and orchestrates super fucking elaborate ass ridiculous fucking scheme to get back at her in which he alleges that she slept with men in order to receive positive reviews for games in spite of the fact that the guy she allegedly slept with never even reviewed her game
4. Pathetic ass manbaby goes further and further with it, orchestrating a “#notyourshield” scheme for people posing as female gamers (and eventually some real female gamers that fall for the hoax) to use. Like the fucking planning that went into this shit is ridiculous. Read the fucking irc logs. Dude is fucking pathetic
5. At some point Adam Baldwin disappoints countless Browncoats by reminding the world that he believes everything Fox News says and he starts tweeting about the shit until it blows up and others start to tweet about it
6. Assholes and anti-feminists run with it, acting like it’s about ethics in game journalism EVEN THOUGH they have no problem with sites that sell positive reviews for money and seem to agree across the board that game journalism sites shouldn’t do anything to piss off their advertisers (so basically these dudes don’t give a fuck about ethics in game journalism they just give a fuck about the fact that a woman may choose to fuck someone that isn’t them)
7. Backlash against #gamergate comes up, and yet SOMEHOW women are the only ones getting threats of violence for speaking up. A former Minnesota Vikings player curses out gamer gaters viscously and is left completely alone, but Felicia Day says she’s wary since gamer gate happened and they doxx the shit out of her and send her threats of violence hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
8. The pathetic manbaby that started all of this says he doesn’t regret doing it in spite of the violent threats women have received and the ones who have had to leave their homes and cancel a speech at a college because some shit threatened a mass shooting just because she was talking.
9. After all of this, after the hoax is exposed and women are the exclusive targets of the worst threats of violence, we’re supposed to believe it’s about ethics in journalism and not blatant fucking misogyny yeah okay
If you ever need proof that men hate women, just watch how violently and how angrily and how indignant they act when a woman says “my personal experiences combined with the experiences of my female loved ones have made me afraid of you collectively”.
“Fuck you, that’s stupid, not every man is like that.”
Maybe not, but you clearly are.When men say this, it has nothing to do with making women feel safer or changing women’s minds about men. It has everything to do with silencing women through insults and fear. It is an entirely self serving act when a man tells a woman not to fear men. They don’t care about women’s safety or peace; they care how women’s suspicion going into any interaction with them is affecting a man’s ability to do what he wants with her later.
I have never seen a man say “not all men” and come from a place of “I want women to feel safe because I want them to be happy”. It always comes from a place of “I want women to feel safe because their fear is inconvenient to me; it prevents them from going on dates with me, it makes them question my intentions when we are alone, it makes them more apt to notice when they are being treated unfairly, it makes them less likely to leave themselves vulnerable to me emotionally and physically, and it makes me uncomfortable that I may have to tell other men to behave, so I’d rather continue to harass the women who are already afraid of me by silencing them.”
I am a guy in my 20s. I’ve been seeing a girl for about 3 months. I just found out that she has had sex with dozens more people than I have. I’m not sure if I’m comfortable with that. What should I do?
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By your own admission you admit you don’t know exactly what happened when you said “this needs to be investigated to explore all options, whether suicide, murder or manslaughter.” Again you admit there needs to be an investigation when you said “There were many policy and procedure violations, as well as inconsistencies in the police departments stories and errors in reports.” After the video we don’t know what happened but you “blame the police and white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.” Huh?
StandardYes, The angry Black woman narrative, rationalizes abuse & violence against Black women.
It is a mechanism of white supremacist patriarchy that strips Black Women of their humanity.
Sandra was labeled as “combative”. The angry Black woman trope is dangerous. White supremacist patriarchy is a threat to Black bodies.
So yes, I blame white supremacy capitalist patriarchy and the State that perpetuates, reinforces and performs anti-Blackness and anti-Black misogyny for the arrest of Sandra Bland that lead to her death in the cell.
If she wasn’t arrested, she would have never died in the cell.
Period.
zellie