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If bey dont win album of the year, kanye gonna burn down the whole venue

#lol #but seriously i believe it #bey #kanye #awards

So in the twelfth century when men were lauding over the field of medicine and refusing to let women learn how to read and write and therefore be trained as physicians they gratuitously implemented their profound wisdom in matters pertaining to gynecological health. And I’m in hysterics.

Because their first course of action in treating uterine prolapse is to introduce some foul smelling substance to the patient’s nether regions while offering sweet smelling things to her nose, in the hope that her uterus would flee the stinky thing and move toward the sweet thing. I shit you not.

The worst part is that nine centuries later men are still confused as fuck when it comes to female health, like buck up, son. Women are still bombarded with idiotic comments like “can’t you just hold it”.

Our menstrual products are still taxed as luxury goods because male legislators don’t understand that having a hormonally scheduled sloughing off of our endometrium is not a fucking luxury. They still don’t understand that tampons aren’t sex toys. They still draw our sexual anatomical diagrams in textbooks as tubes, tunnels, as an open hole. Trust me, sister, that thing ain’t open. It’s a muscle. They still leave out the clitoris (?).

Honestly men should never have been allowed to take charge of female specific healthcare.

#healthcare #women's health #gynecology #men #history #misogyny

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So, another thing to know today, on the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, is where the word “genocide” actually came from.

It was came from Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish man who coined the term based on his study (in the 20s-30s) of what are now known as the Armenian and Assyrian Genocides. He went on to fight to defend Warsaw from Nazi invasion, and later to survive/escape the Holocaust as well. At least 49 of his family members were killed during the Holocaust.

Lemkin then went on to push for international recognition of genocide, culminating in the 1948 Convention on Genocide, which established a legal definition of genocide as well.

The term “genocide” literally exists because of Lemkin’s study of the Armenian Genocide - and he wasn’t just a scholar but a survivor of an even larger genocide.

And yet, people deny that “genocide” should be used to describe the Armenian Genocide.

#genocide #armenian genocide #history #holocaust #raphael lemkin