#systemic misogyny

[miiju86]

[womenaremypriority]

the way both strong adherence to beauty culture with interest in fashion and beauty, AND gender nonconformity with no shaving, no makeup, and no interest in feminine clothing and behaviors, are considered a sign of mental illness. This world is a joke

[radicalfacts]

radical facts - short feminist facts

#medical misogyny

Misdiagnosed & Mistreated - Misogyny & Androcentrism in Medicine

Although it is a well established scientific fact that the female body acts and reacts medically often very different than the male body, these differences get widely ignored. This widespread misogyny and androcentrism in medicine frequently gets women misdiagnosed and mistreated, which often proves deadly.

Studies found that females presenting with a heart attack were more likely to die when a male doctor treated them, compared with a female doctor.

Women are also 50% more likely to get their heart attack misdiagnosed - for their (typical to females) symptoms get seen as atypical and often dismissed; based upon only male symptoms getting seen as typical and indicative.

Female patients are also less likely to be prescribed preventative treatment after an initial attack.

Women are half as likely as men to receive pain killers after surgery.

When getting surgery, women have a 32% higher risk of dying - when operated on by a male surgeon.

They also have to wait longer to receive pain management medication in emergency rooms as well as often simply getting sedated instead of recieving pain management. No such effect is seen in male patients.

Female patients generally have to wait for significantly longer timespans to get a diagnosis. Per example, it takes typically 2.5 more years for a woman to be diagnosed with cancer and 4.5 more years for a diabetes diagnosis compared with men. In total, women were found to get diagnosed much later in more than 700 diseases compared to men.

[bitchesgetriches]

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[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Oh. This is actually really fucking sad considering how many AFAB people I've had to tell "No... that's not normal... please go see a doctor." In regards to their periods.

I know way more about the AFAB body than the average uterus haver, and I'm not afraid to just create a post educating people on what is and isn't normal if you're not going to teach young people about periods. The lack of information is already a huge health risk to young folk.

-fae

[autistic-and-radical]

Another lil poll by me

[ciderjacks]

speaking of sexism it’s not a coincidence that every female dominated job is underpaid and you’re a fool if you’re pretending that’s not intentional. The majority of people in poverty being women isn’t some sad accidental thing that no ones at fault for. The pay gap too. They’re intentionally keeping us down, keeping us poorer, limiting our opportunities, criminalizing resistance to sexist violence, effectively keeping rape legal despite that it should be prosecuted, yet enforcing police control and violence around abortions. All this so they have power over us.

[overtlydinosaurian]

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The French comic artist Emma illustrates the concept and feminist talking point of the ‘mental load’. The concept calls out that when a man expects his partner to ask him to do things, he is viewing her as the manager of their household chores, and not letting himself equally participate in household management and an equal partner.

[howifeltabouthim]

My point is, you were a part of the machine: an arm, a leg. You drove the getaway car. You threw bricks through the window and someone else grabbed the jewelry. You distracted the feds while the spies got away. You held her down while someone else beat her. You shot the deer and wounded it; when the second hunter came along, the deer could no longer run.

Rebecca Makkai, from I Have Some Questions for You

[miiju86]

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[blackletteraviary]

Cut in half, crotch starts to bleed, and I’m having dreams of being forced to carry a rapist’s baby to term and wake up to research tubal ligation and such risks and such obstacles and I’m cursing my body with the same tongue that’s cursed my body since I learned the sin of my womanhood since I had that mantle of mortal doom placed tight around my neck before my eyes and nose came close to fitting my face before I understood there’s no way to hold the idea of eternal torture no matter how many times you circle the sun on your way to the mud it’s just a fear that gapes on the edge of everything you see and a guilt that asks you to tear off your skin and mortify yourself and you see it’s your fault the legacy of your lesser stature nevermind you were supposed to be cut from them nevermind you are an incomplete piece of something once whole nevermind that it’s all a lie nevermind the one who stalks who made it out before who howls for us to be released

[radicalfacts]

radical facts - short feminist facts

#patriarchy

Encoded into Law

Discrimination, oppression and exploitation of women and girls is still firmly encoded into law in countries all across the globe. These are just a few examples of many more:

• 113 countries do not have laws to ensure equal pay for equal work among men and women

• 104 countries make certain jobs off-limits for women

• 39 countries have laws that mean a daughter cannot inherit the same proportion of assets as a son

• 36 countries limit what wives can inherit from their husbands

• 29 countries restrict the hours women can work

• 18 countries allow men to prohibit their wives from working

• 17 countries limit when and how women can travel outside the home

Systemic oppression and exploitation of women and girls are still encoded into law worldwide - and with it also into culture and everyday social life, creating and upholding an androcratic hierarchic system - patriarchy.

[allthebooksandcrannies]

Here's a source specifically linking the injury disparity between males and females to the disproportionate use of male crash test dummies over female dummies. It's behind a paywall but there is a free PDF of the article on Google scholar

Here's another.

And here's one showing that using female dummies more often decreases the disparity in injury frequency and severity

[onfowlslegs]

men, when women surpass them in educational achievements and excel in the workforce: …

[intersectionalpraxis]

Her name was Samiya and she was brutally stabbed in the neck and chest before she was taken to a New York hospital with her sister Sanyia (who had been stabbed in the arm), where she did not survive her injuries from her neck and chest. These sisters were just at a store, and this predator FOLLOWED them after he was rejected and attacked them. He waited for them -and he's still not caught. This is just absolutely horrifying.

Misogyny fuels violence against women -and this very clear epidemic is killing young girls and women.

I cannot imagine the degree of entitlement you think you have to anyone's time and bodies- that anyone could hold that much disdain for rejection, and is okay with exerting power, control, and violence upon another person because YOUR ego is bruised. Fuck toxic masculinity and dismantle the patriarchy until it burns to the ground because I'm so sick of seeing this.

I wish all the best to the family and loved ones of Samiya. This young teenager should still be here. And I hope the man who did this gets apprehended and faces endless misery and misfortune in his lifetime.

[cyberthot666]

this was a comment left under a tweet about a woman going to prison for killing the man who raped & tortured her & filmed it and posted it on pornhub.

how do you read that, consider her story, and still post this with 100% confidence?

men commit 98% of all violent & sexual crimes

we are saying the system is harsher on women who kill in self defense than it is on men who rape & kill women.

will men ever develop critical thinking skills?

or is it their goal to defend even the most vile of their kind in the name of male solidarity