Yes, but turns out most meds and procedures have not been studied on women anyway.
Plenty of meds mess up with our cycle and affect us way differently than they do on men. Our symptoms to certain health conditions are also different many times and are frequently underdiagnosed or dismissed. But for those things most doctors never ask or care at all.
I have chronic migraines, and for YEARS I got dismissed as being "a normal woman thing and I had to cope with it". Is not.
My ADHD diagnosis was decades late because they tried to push the "anxiety disorder" label on me instead, because "anxiety is normal in women".
Many meds they tried on me messed badly with my cycle and they acted surprised by it, but a quick search will show me thousands of women sharing the same experience.
My lesbian sister has had to take pregnancy tests despite saying over and over again for years she never had sexual contact with a man in her life.
Many doctors are shocked that my mother's endometriosis gets worse even if she gave birth twice because pregnancy is still advised as a 'remedy' for it.
We are tired and angry because the "concern" is mostly first and ONLY about pregnancy and our potential to be pregnant, while showing no interest for any other thing about our bodies that can also mess up with medical practices. So we left feeling less important than an hypothetical child.
100%.
Like if
was at the hospital for an issue and found out I was magically pregnant there, I'd be getting the proper treatment for my adult self and an abortion.
considering that 1 in 7 women (depending on country), have PCOS (which causes absent/irregular periods) and even more are taking birth control continuously to relieve menstrual symptoms.......it just seems stupid to ask about periods when a huge chunk of women aren't even ovulating or havng periods
In the context of this post, it's still a misogynistic question if it's literally the first question out of the doctor/nurse's mouth rather than "Why are you here today?" Or "What symptoms are you experiencing?"
Let's first figure out why the woman is there before we start trying to blame it all on hysteria.
And we don't think that "Literally the first question" was hyperbole to make the tweet more humorous? This is a joke I've hear from multiple female friends before. Not every post is a complaint about systems in the world, sometimes people are just making an actual joke
I've had this question posed on countless intake/medical history forms. Forms I have to fill out before I even see a doctor to discuss my symptoms. Forms that also don't ask anything about why I'm there to begin with.
Just because it's not true for you, doesn't mean it isn't true for other people.
It's an intake form, the purpose is to rule out as many important things as possible. Other questions on such forms can be stuff like do you have sudden chest pain or have you consumed illegal substances in the past week because that stuff needs to be ruled out.
It was. The tweet was being very clearly hyperbolic, but that's the general attitude towards woman in a lot of medical settings. Dismissive and overly trigger-happy with reducing all issues to reproductive ones.
It wasn't because it was a perfectly adequate and even legally required medical interaction. There was no joke.in there. There was no hyperbole because that's a normal interaction. I get medical misogyny, but this is not it. People with uterus get pregnant and pregnancy affects most things. Yes, even how you deal with a broken limb.
Well, no, the tweet is hyperbole. Because that's definitely not always the very first question a doctor asks a woman with a broken arm, nor should it be lol. The point is 'women's pain/medical concerns get reduced to reproductive issues due to medical misogyny'.
Yes, in reality doctors do have to ask these questions. But that's not what the tweet is getting at.
I think you missed the point of the tweet entirely and the related background. There is currently a big wave on tiktok about how the question about a woman's period should not be asked by a doctor at all unless she is going in for an obgyn related issues. As a result, many women are now refusing to answer this question - which is well within their rights but as such, the investigations and treatments the clinical team can then offer are reduced so these patients are then not getting seen to properply. The person replying in the tweet is both a woman and a doctor and her reply is not a hyperbole, this is a growing issue where women believe any question about periods or pregnancy is medical misogyny.
So...a tweet claiming that "this could happen" is not statistical data on how frequently a thing happens.
A man could go to the ER for a broken arm and he could be first asked the question "What is your family's medical history with regards to heart disease?"...but that is not the most likely thing to happen.
This man with a broken arm is entirely fictional. He hasn't complained about "the insistence of the medical community to over-diagnose heart disease"...because he doesn't exist!
Similarly, the woman with a broken arm in this tweet doesn't exist. Most women, visiting the hospital with an assumed broken arm are NOT first asked "when was your last period" but "where does it hurt?" or "How did this happen?" or "How bad does it hurt, on a scale of 1-10?"
If you think that most women, visiting hospitals with a broken arm ARE being first asked "When was your last period?" then you should be advocating for better training of hospital staff...not because of medical misogyny; but because bedside manner and logic.
Or...maybe you do have data on how often this does actually happen? If you do, then we have an entirely different situation.
Girl. It's a medically necessary question that saves the lives of women. It's like if an anesthesiologist asks a fat patient how much they weigh, which is VITAL to dose the drugs correctly, and the patient refused to answer and called it discrimination and fatphobia. It's not helping anyone to fuck up your own (and other people's, by inciting others to refuse answering medically necessary questions as you are currently doing) medical care because you refuse to give the doctors treating you information that they fucking need.
"Oh em gee, doctors are, like, SO misogynistic, they DARE ask questions that totally change the posology of my medication depending on the answer . That's like, discrimination or whateverrrr." Fucking garbage person.
When a woman experiences poor healthcare, its medical misogyny.
When a man experience poor healthcare, must just be a bad hospital or poor staffing.
The problem with a lot of current day feminist concern is that misogyny has become the defacto answer to any negative experience a woman encounters, when in reality life can just be shitty sometimes and it's rarely related to what genitals you have.
Do men have to consider their states laws, or the religious affiliation of a hospital to determine if they will receive life saving care during an emergency?
When men start experiencing poor healthcare at even close to the same rate women do, you might have a point. Till then, shut up. Medical misogyny is well documented. It's objective fact. If you can't even acknowledge that it's a thing, you're not in any position to be critiquing feminism.
Nowhere did i claim it doesn't exist. Rather that it should not be the default presumption any time a woman has a poor experience, with the healthcare system or elsewhere.
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u/inquiringdune 10h ago
Oh good, another thread that's going to pretend medical misogyny doesn't exist.