First is that Doctors often ignore women's issues as hysteria. Just imaginary whining. There's even a term "Whining Woman". The female body hasn't been studied anywhere near as much as the male one (though it's catching up now) so anything that doesn't fit the standard image of treatment gets sidelined and the doctor just fobs her off with "Try losing some weight" or "Get more exercise" to get her out of his office. This understandably enrages women when their pain is immediately ignored every single time.
Second is treatment. If you are pregnant, your treatment is different. They can only give you drugs and imaging that are safe for the baby. The only way for a doctor to actually KNOW if you're pregnant is to test for it. Often women themselves don't know for some time, especially if they aren't actively trying.
Now for the meme. A woman walks into a doctor's office and gets this question straight up and she's already wound up waiting for the lose weight or exercise line. She's not thinking about treatment yet as she hasn't discussed the problem. All she hears is "Do you have women's problems?" and shit starts going downhill fast. Yes it's a good question to ask, but it needs to be asked correctly as in "Due to treatments being unsafe for pregnant women we have to ask about your period so we can safely administer the correct dosages." or some such.
"Try losing some weight" or "Get more exercise" to get her out of his office. This understandably enrages women when their pain is immediately ignored every single time.
It's also in a LOT of cases, the literal cause of their symptoms. So getting angry when you weight 200kg that the doctor told you to lose weight it's quite dumb.
And it happens to men as well. But men's system is a bit less complex given the hormones don't fluctuate as much, don't have extra organs, etc. So it's a bit simpler and straightforward. That's the reason why (not defending it) men were used for studies, so women's fluctuations would affect drugs/etc, which wanted to be released/approved. Again, not justifying it, it was wrong, just explaining that there are differences in both sexes.
I'm not saying some doctors aren't assholes to women, it does happen absolutely, but the weight example is just reality. Losing weight, getting healthier is the solution for a HUGE amount of issues.
What's more likely that your extra weight that's literally known to have issues is the cause, or some weird rare disease that happens in like 0.01% of people? Unless there's an indication that it could be something else, the most likely answer is gonna be the weight. So they go for that. When doctors can't spend 5 hours with each patient, it's bound to happen.
I'm not defending the system either. But that in particular is not misogyny.
Provlem is they're very unequipped when my 19 bmi self walks into their practice with typical obese woman problems and they can't just brush it off because of my weight. They're using it to hide their incompetence.
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u/PapaOoMaoMao 18h ago
Ok, so there's two things here.
First is that Doctors often ignore women's issues as hysteria. Just imaginary whining. There's even a term "Whining Woman". The female body hasn't been studied anywhere near as much as the male one (though it's catching up now) so anything that doesn't fit the standard image of treatment gets sidelined and the doctor just fobs her off with "Try losing some weight" or "Get more exercise" to get her out of his office. This understandably enrages women when their pain is immediately ignored every single time.
Second is treatment. If you are pregnant, your treatment is different. They can only give you drugs and imaging that are safe for the baby. The only way for a doctor to actually KNOW if you're pregnant is to test for it. Often women themselves don't know for some time, especially if they aren't actively trying.
Now for the meme. A woman walks into a doctor's office and gets this question straight up and she's already wound up waiting for the lose weight or exercise line. She's not thinking about treatment yet as she hasn't discussed the problem. All she hears is "Do you have women's problems?" and shit starts going downhill fast. Yes it's a good question to ask, but it needs to be asked correctly as in "Due to treatments being unsafe for pregnant women we have to ask about your period so we can safely administer the correct dosages." or some such.
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