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i always recommend wuthering heights to people because it’s such a unique book in which none of the characters are even remotely likable and yet….you really can’t wait to see where their bullshit is going to take them next. running away from home? cool. obsessing about revenge for the rest of your life? hey everyone needs a hobby. forcing your kid and the neighbors kid to get married? sounds like a plan. digging up your old lovers grave? why the fuck not at this point. you’re both pissed off yet fascinated. you will be miserable but love every second of it

prideprejudce

one of my favorite summaries about this book was given to me by an english major who said “wuthering heights is basically a book about a group of awful people who all made a secret promise to ruin as many lives as possible before they fucked off and died. and by the end heathcliff won with a 50 point lead

radcow

Radfem: Cis women and trans women have different experiences

Genderist: Yeah!

Radfem: Cis women may have trouble relating to the unique issues that trans women have, so it’s important for trans women to have their own spaces to discuss their individual issues.

Genderist: Yeah!!

Radfem: Thus, trans women might have trouble relating to the unique issues of cis women, so it’s important for cis women to have their own spaces.

Genderist: ……NO

bettedavisgf

psychological thriller: the man was LYING the whole time! me: i know

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remember when you could say stuff like “the earth is round” or “nazis are bad” and be absolutely certain everyone who heard you would agree

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remember when you could say “we shouldn’t attack children with tear gas” and be absolutely certain everyone who heard you would agree

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remember when you could say “you shouldn’t let your children catch fatal, preventable diseases” and be absolutely certain everyone who heard you would agree

gonegrrrrrl-deactivated20200821

remember when you could say “humans are a sexually dimorphic species”

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hating-alison-ashley

Amazing self-burn

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pinbian

Not to start shit but can y’all not forget trans people exist for 10 fucking seconds?

deputy-shayy

No, we literally cannot, because you insufferable shitheads literally never fucking shut up about yourselves.

sapphic-schizo

i fucking wish i could i created a whole nother account just to get away from y’all constantly shitting on lesbians but even my nonproblematic account is flooded with tranbian larper fetishists….

torixvci

It’s like they never shut up. They always have to insert themselves into things that have nothing to do with them. On this website and in real life.

trufemale420

The medical community on literally every female specific health issue ever: “very common condition” “no known cause” “no known cure” :))))))

newtonssidedick

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????!?!?

trufemale420

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.

witwitch-deactivated20160508

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.

hyggehaven-deactivated20200904

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.

feminerds

Don’t forget that most pharmaceuticals go to market without ever having been tested on people with a uterus, lest someone get pregnant… seriously that is the whole rationale behind not testing >50% of the population. This has been legislated against in some countries, but still persists in the of majority drug development because of other regulations, and traditions and laziness. The use of a drug is of course monitored in the population after release, but the people “trying” it in this capacity get none of the insurance, close and regular medical examination or monetary benefit of essentially being in a late stage drug trial. Drugs that are pulled from market after release are sometimes done so on the basis that the dosage is just too high for females/afab people and this is, of course, after they’ve experienced the adverse affects.

This is why if you get pregnant your doctor will take you off basically any and all medication you’re taking (including mental health medication, can’t imagine any implications/dire consequences there), not because they know it will have an adverse affect on the foetus but because they have no idea. How wonderfully kind of them to prioritise the health and life of an unborn foetus over that of a living person, let’s just hope they don’t become ill whilst pregnant. How charmingly logical it is that they wouldn’t even bother to test drugs in people with a uterus because it’s all too difficult and gosh, darn what an ethical conundrum we’ve been faced with, let’s just not! Which is so in the spirit of capital S, Science!

Sources: Nature, Nature, Medscape, Biomedcentral.

prokopetz

Indeed, the issue is so severe that, in many cases, folks with uteruses are routinely told that their diseases and disorders are not, in fact, disorders at all, and are just a normal part of having a uterus.

Take menstrual cramps, for example. Everybody knows that cramps are a normal part of menstruation, and that virtually all people who menstruate experience them throughout their lives, right?

Except that’s not right at all.

Yes, it’s true that about two-thirds of individuals who menstruate begin to experience menstrual pain during adolescence, but it’s basically a side effect of puberty, and normally subsides by your late teens. Only about 20-40% of menstruating adults experience menstrual pain on a regular basis - and according to some estimates, as much as 80% of that figure is due to undiagnosed endometriosis or some other underlying medical condition.

Yeah, roll those numbers around in your head: if you’re an adult who experiences menstrual cramps, it’s overwhelmingly likely that your pain is a symptom of some potentially serious medical condition.

And yet we tell folks it’s just a normal thing that everybody has to deal with.

dottewa-deactivated20200728

Bonus round: Look up PCOS and gender identity.

Then look up PCOS and diabetes.

thepageofhopes

Ok, to show how incredibly important this post fucking is, I just looked up endometriosis and I match just about every sympton, and it would explain not just my incredibly painful periods but many other things as well. I had no idea this existed. Please, read this post and reblog this so others can learn.

philosopher--queens

I will reblog this every time because my cousin (a cis girl) went through seven years of pain without being taken seriously until SHE suggested it was endometriosis. And that’s not even unusual - that’s the average amount of time it takes between first symptoms and a diagnosis of endometriosis.

wickedkhaleesi-blog

NO KNOWN CAUSES OR CURES. JUST SUFFER. - the doctors diagnosing me with pcos, Fibromyalgia, and endometriosis.

dynastylnoire

I was diagnosed with endo when was in my early twenties. Their advice to me was hurry up and make babies because you could be made infertile.

Go on birth control

Or have a hysterectomy

Something else to know is endo spreads. So you can get misdiagnosed for everything but endo because of the location of your pain.

My endo spread to my navel, gallbladder, rectum, ovaries, and vagina. The gallbladder pain caused my side to burn. Went to the er for it 4 years ago and they told me it was acid reflux

When my navel started bleeding when I was at work last fall er docs told me if was an infection.

In both cases I said I have endo but the endometriosis causing these symptoms was ignored until I went to a specialist.

note-a-bear

Tl;dr chances are if you have a uterus, you’re suffering under gross medical neglect.

karnythia

The only reason my endo isn’t worse is because I had a partial hysterectomy. Of course I wouldn’t have needed it if I had seen a competent doctor before I turned 30…

radicalcoffeeclub

Fun fact is gender lingo and calling women “folks with uteruses” is NOT HELPING

warriorforartemis

W O M E N

I swear to god, every one of you that uses “folks with uteruses” or “uterus people” is fucking brain dead. No man has ever had to deal with ANY of the above issues. It’s women.

truethingsiwishicouldsay

Oh look, the Man With Deeply Held Uninformed Opinions deactivated and ran away. ^_^

climbingupbestican

Did you know insurance will often not cover mammograms or breast ultrasounds for women who are under the average age women need mammograms, even if it’s medically necessary due to doctors finding breast lumps? I just found out. Thankfully my insurance covered it but at first they told me I needed to pay $200 for my appointment. It turns out that since there is medical proof I needed it, due to the lump and me also now needing a biopsy, I’m thankfully covered and my copay was $50. But if I had not needed a biopsy I may have been forced to pay $200. What BS.