i hate going to my endocrinologist's office because she shares a reception with the OB/GYNs and i hate every medical brochure/poster/banner aimed at women and particularly women who are pregnant or taking care of a baby, because it's like if you took a yogurt commercial and a diaper commercial and mashed them together into something so unexaminedly cliche & hyper-cisheteronormative that it feels like it can't possibly exist in this universe, like it should have collapsed into a singularity of such a banal vision of a femininity that it induces vomiting in all who behold it. you start to think, surely even cishet women must feel like this shit is condescending and unrealistic, right? but then you look to the left and there's some bitch dressed and styled exactly like the woman on the brochure, aggressively gendering the mole rat in a basket next to her to anyone who'll listen.
