always makes me so upset that the concern about treating PCOS is always centered around how it makes people look less masculine, as if thats the main problem with PCOS. ive talked to trans men with PCOS (or suspect they have it) who are like "i don't need to treat it because it just gives me extra testosterone! i like looking manly" and its always so concerning because PCOS does have actual physical health concerns! even if you don't want to take estrogen as a treatment you still need to be seeing a gynecologist regularly, getting tested for insulin resistance (very very common with PCOS and can lead to diabetes if untreated) and making sure you're aware of your cancer risks and getting checked regularly (yes you will need to get a pap smear probably im sorry its better then cancer 😔 they're changing the recommendation from 21 to 25 so i can avoid it a little longer haha). not ovulating naturally (without birth control i mean) is considered a risk factor for uterine cancer, i know having a period sucks but you need to be doing it safely, if your body stops having periods without medication its not safe. its so infuriating that people's biggest concern about PCOS always seems to be "fat and hairy" and not heart disease risk, diabetes risk, insulin resistance, cancer risk and even just having cysts in your ovaries that can cause health issues if they get too big.
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Sometimes I write OC backstories and ideas for myself that never see the light of the day. I tend to write male OCs more often than female OCs, so I was kinda confused why my brain kept coming up with female MDZS OCs.
And then I realized just how raw-ly women get shafted in the MDZS / Untamed universe.
List under the cut because of potential spoilers for new people in fandom and also so this post is easy to skip for anyone not interested in me pointing this out.
That I can remember, off the top of my head:
Jiang Yanli (amazing, perfect, queen of all our hearts, who is the only girl born to a major sect leader who is legitimized has a terrible fiance and then they break up and then he's more horrible to her but then he turns around and redeems himself and they get to be happy for a little while and then he dies and then she dies and leaves behind a child)
Wen Qing (amazing, kickass, fantastic, a queen, we stan, who dies)
Assorted Wen women like Wen Popo (who all die)
Lan Yuan's Wen mom (who died before the Wen got out of the labour camps)
Madam Yu (who is a bitch and a queen and HIGHLY controversial for very good reason who has a terrible marriage and dies protecting her home and people after sending off her son)
Madame Jin (whom we don't know much about except that she supposedly was Madam Yu's best friend and adored Yanli and was a bitch about Wei Wuxian and had a terrible marriage to a known philanderer that had bastards all over the place, who dies sometime off screen in the time skip)
Madam Mo (who is a terrible woman who treats her relative horribly and enables her family's shitty actions and her son's shittier ones and then dies in short order)
Mo Xuanyu's mother (who was the daughter of a servant, got into an affair with Jin Guangshan, we don't know if it was voluntarily or if he pressured her / cajoled her into it, was the subject of praise and jealousy when her son was brought to Jinlintai and then when he was booted out for being a homosexual and a not that great of a cultivator 'died soon after' because she was 'unable to bear the shame', which I always read to imply that she killed herself)
Qin Su (who gets to have a shitty marriage because she unknowingly marries her own half-brother [who knows he is marrying is half-sister but can't figure out a way to get out of it], this half brother then [uberknownst to her, at least for a while] kills their child for being the product of said incest and then he threatens her before she decides to die by suicide)
Meng Yao's mom (was a prostitute who was left pregnant by her client and then abandoned to the wayside and died at some point)
Women that were abused by the lecherous Jin Clan head (most of whom died except for like, one or two)
Supposedly a matriarchal sect Madam Yu came from that we never actually see characters from
Madam Yu's lethal handmaidens (who both die)
Wen Chao's concubine (who is depicted as a jealous, crass, bitchy, terrible woman and who dies)
Lan Wangji and Lan Xichen's mother (killed the teacher of her future husband, future husband became husband because HE decided that that was the only way to protect her and then she got confined to the Jianshi and only allowed to see her kids once a month until she killed herself)
Wei Wuxian's mom (who died pre-canon in a hunt gone wrong with her husband)
Baoshan Sanren (mentioned immortal woman with her own peak and disciples that we only hear about and never see)
Lan ancestor lady (who self-proclaimed herself as having failed at her aims in life and spent centuries of her afterlife watching over a piece of the Yin Iron until she finally got to hand it over to the two protagonists and then moved on, died centuries before canon started)
A-Qing (who lived on the streets and faked a disability to get by and then died before we even met her and remains around as a spirit)
Luo Qingyang / Mianmian who actually gets to live even post timeskip but only because she quit the Jin and retired from the Sect world to live as a rogue cultivator but hey, at least she's alive and she's got a husband and a female child (who gets to interrupt Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian while they are about to have sex in the appedinces)
The girl who got cursed by the fairy statue that we never see beyond the very beginning of the story.
Most of these are dead, almost all the ones who were married had terrible marriages and only a couple escaped the novel with their lives.
Like, holy fuck this is such bad percentages.
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