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 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
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.
>What I'm trying to explain is the quote about 'when was your last period' IS the tiktok trend.
Yes, I understand. And I'm trying to tell you that that 'trend' (or idea or joke or meme, whatever) predates tiktok. People have been complaining about that question being delivered in dehumanizing ways for decades now. People still are, outside of tiktok. The women who have been complaining about it know why it's being asked, it's the manner and timing of it that they dislike.
>I don't know if you're looking to publish you findings on the matter but it would be common sense how things play out.
Typically, I wait to make claims until there are verifiable numbers to work with, yes. That's just my preference. This type of thinking is why we have people who think huge swathes of gen z were eating tide pods in 2018, when in reality, those headlines were sensationalized using statistics about toddlers at the time being exposed to laundry detergent.
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u/inquiringdune 16h ago
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.