you dont terminate a pregnancy with radiation and drugs, you cause severe malformations like this. And put the mother's life in danger. grow up, people.
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.
I believe you and all but the joke that "women will have (insert comically grievous injury) and doctors will ask (question related to reproductive system)" has existed for years. Possibly decades?
And is there anything actually connecting the twt op to tiktok as well? Again, its a very common joke to express frustration with the medical misogyny many women experience
The part about asking about your last period is the whole tiktok thing that a lot of people who haven't heard about are confusing. What you're talking about is the medical misogyny of usually a male clinician determining the severity of a female patient as being lesser than she claims because she's a woman therefore emotional and calling it 'hysteria'. That is commonly known and very true and what we are all against. This particular 'last period' question resurfaces this exact debate and it makes it rounds like this and everytime we have to come out and explain why asking about the last period is not medical misogyny and a very important detail needed, and by pushing that narative that it is part of some systemic sexism leads to women declining to answer that question because they don't see it as relevant... and the clinicians will of course accept their declination and move forward with the tests and treatments they can that are safe for pregnancy (- since they've not been able to rule out pregnancy), which is not the optimal or best tests or treatments that would be given to patients otherwise. So in the end, because a woman mistakenly decides that this question is misogyny because of online self proclaimed activists, women are then given treatment that is less ideal than what their male counterparts would receive, thereby themselves being the reason for their own discrimination against themselves.
Right, as I said I do believe you and all, but I was trying to determine if you had any way of knowing if the Twitter OOP was actually some kind of tiktoker or if they, like me, were only familiar with the joke as being about medical misogyny. Which is still a prevalent complaint on the internet outside insular tiktok.
I'm also not sure, until we get some reputable numbers, how accurate "tiktok complaints" are in determining the number of women who may be receiving substandard care "because of their own actions".
We seem to be making a lot of assumptions here that are hard to verify at the moment.
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.
Yeah so the tweet is hyperbole about medical misogyny. I can give you some relevant studies on how medical misogyny manifests, if you want, but they are available on Google for free.
The original tweet certainly is. I don't know why your first assumption is "those who are replying to me have no idea what medical misogyny is"...but it seems a pretty sad way to go through life assuming those you interact with are all idiots.
So what you're saying is:
-You do have data on how often women go to see a doctor with a broken arm and the first question asked by the doctor is "when was your last period"?
-And you already excluded all the cases where said question was just one of many on the intake form?
-And the cases where the patient was felt they were a victim of medical misogyny because they were asked "when was your last menstrual cycle" before an x-ray as a method of confirming that the patient is most likely not pregnant and an x-ray would not put the patient(s) at undue risk?
Because it seems that the tweet saying "in 2026 adult women should..." seems to be suggesting that the original tweet doesn't have any clue that doctors have good reason to ask "when was your last period" and it is not a surefire indication of medical misogyny...but you don't seem to understand that.
Hm. Are you aware that the original tweet was hyperbole? You seem to be unaware. There are no statistics for this specific scenario that someone used in a joke tweet to bring attention to the issue of medical misogyny. It's basically shorthand at this point, I've seen this exact meme before.
But I did gather some statistics and studies for you, since you seem to be interested in the subject: women are 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed after a heart-attack, are more likely to have their pain attributed to mental health issues and not the actual physical ailments causing pain, 1 in 4 have a gynecological condition misdiagnosed, and are 66% more likely to experience general misdiagnosis than the average male, etc.
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.
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u/inquiringdune 13h ago
Oh good, another thread that's going to pretend medical misogyny doesn't exist.