#misogyny kills

[radicalfacts]

radical facts - short feminist facts

#medical misogyny

Misogyny in the ER

Women visiting the ER with visited emergency departments with chest pain waited 29 percent longer than men to be evaluated for possible heart attacks.

Women are also 25% less likely than men to recieve effective pain treatment - and, as well, have to wait on average 30 minutes longer to recieve any pain relief treatment than male patients.

Women's pain also gets judged as less intense and less serious than men's - with according results for female patients.

Especially in gynecolgical treatments, women's pain tends to be dismissed to exist at all with many invasive treatments regularly being performed without any numbing or pain relief at all.

Women are also more likely to wait longer for a health diagnosis in general and to be told it’s ‘all in their heads’/psychological. That can be lethal: diagnostic errors cause 40,000-80,000 deaths in the US alone - with women being up to 30% more likely than men to get misdiagnosed.

[lightofraye]

Domestic violence hits again.

Rest in peace, my dear lady.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Travel around the social media verse, and you’ll soon run into a very familiar perspective of sexism.

One that tells us that whilst sexism goes both ways; misogyny against women remains endemic, and deadly, whilst misandry against men benignly paddles in the shallow end of sexism, more of an inconvenience than anything else.

As the meme goes – Misogyny kills, and misandry irritates.

One is a matter of life and death. The other just has to pay the bill on dates.

Misandry is sexism-lite; a kind of luke warm, off brand knock version of misogyny classic.

But of course, like most things you’ll read online, misandry is not trivial, to be relegated to the world of mere inconvenience, as like misogyny, it can kill too – and has.

If you don’t believe me – ask the countless hundreds of thousands of men and boys systemically exterminated in Anfal, or within Operation Searchlight, the 8,000 massacred in Srenbrenica, or many more disappeared in Kashmir.

History, and the present day, is full of examples of boys and men being sought out and punished, hurt or killed, purely because of their gender.

Misandry sleeps under bridges. Misandry drops out of school.

Misandry gave Europe its worst genocide since the Second World War..

And these deaths, disadvantages, and disspearances, cannot be watered down to men just ‘being irritated’.

Neither can the fathers who are losing children in family court, the survivors shut out of refuges, or indeed the hundreds of thousands conscripted in Ukraine, be rounded down, and reduced to ‘an inconvenience.’

What’s more the whole framing of misandry vs misogyny is entirely unhelpful.

It builds a divide where there should never be one, and turns one side against another, when it needn’t do so.

So why do we water down the experiences of men and boys across the world, why do we minimise their staggering loss of life, and why do we pit one sex against the other?

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Sources:

Srenbrenica: https://web.archive.org/web/20150712192651/http:/www.gendercide.org/case_srebrenica.html

Family court coalition: https://fcrc.uk/problems/

Paragraph 175: https://www.holocaust.org.uk/news/homosexual-victims-of-nazi-persecution

Kashmir: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2011/4/18/the-disappeared-of-kashmir

Ukraine: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3ng45/males-banned-from-leaving-ukraine

US National Survey: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/17596591211244166/full/html

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"Misogyny kills, misandry irritates" is still a useful rubric. It helps you very quickly identify the mentally ill and the sociopathic.

[jinxthefreak]

When you said “dumb cunt" .......

....I thought you were talking about yourself

[jesse-pinko]

“But Skyler fucked Ted!” I wish she’d fucked Walter’s mom actually. I wish she’d told Walt to kill himself every day for breakfast lunch and dinner. I wish she had taught Holly to say “dad sucks” as her first words. So no she wasn’t perfect.

[prokopetz]

Indvisable tabletop RPG premise #137: solo journaling game where.. okay, you know that serialised boys' adventure schlock from the 1930s and 1940s where the writers needed the otherwise intensely homosocial male leads to be seen hanging out with girls in order to prove that they're not gay, but they didn't want to include more than one female character, so they'd have just the one girl and sort of imply-without-ever-directly-stating that she's dating all of them at once? Solo journaling game where you take on the role of that girl.

[radfemcroatia]

The male sex was a mistake.

Men love rape. It's their nature.

[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.

[tategaminu]

[animalblog09]

But suddenly, when it's a 19 year old girl, she's so mature for her age, she just gets him, she knows what she's doing. It's striking how often emotional vulnerability, particularly when expressed by women, is weaponized against them. You see it in conversations, in arguments—whenever a woman dares to reveal her pain, it's instantly flipped back on her as a character flaw. She s "too sensitive" or "just hurt." It s rarely framed as a natural human reaction. Your children can be taken from you, and you can be forced to pay child support and denied visitation. Yes, even if you aren't abusive, they can lie about you in court and have a fair shot at being believed. Especially if they're male. Online feminist discourse can feel disconnected from real-world activism, leading to a sense of frustration among those who want to see tangible change. Many argue that while digital spaces are useful for spreading ideas, true progress requires organizing in the physical world to challenge systems of oppression. Is it really worth all the risk? Ive had enough of peanuts always trying to tumblr in The mashed forest. Well never make it to the special room with all this banana.

[miiju86]

These are links to both books in my Google Drive archive if anyone's interested to look look more into the topic.

Medical misogyny especially is - sadly - so extremely widespread and also one of the main pillars of misogyny. The male claim of female "inferiority" - be it physical, intellectual, emotional or even spiritual - is the top "argument" they use to justify the male-supremacist (sexual) colonization of women & girls, a.k.a. patriarchy.

Other very eye-opening books about medical misogyny are also these linked down below:

Hey gyns! I’ve recently just reread this book because after reading it a year ago, it’s still haunting me. This is a difficult read because of how dark the content is, but I think it’s important to read if you can get your hands on a copy.

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynocology by Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens

[tenderjock]

I’m with you, my love The lights shining through on you Yes, I’m with you, my love It’s the morning and just we two

[trek-tracks]

Feel free to debate this, but I think we can all agree Bones eagerly claimed "exposure." They didn't actually run out of vegetables but Jim got scurvy anyway

[fixtheaxel]

She turned off reblogs so imma address it here.

NOT EVERYONE IS WHITE/WESTERN

YOU DUMBASS

When you mean 'societally acceptable', what you actually mean is

'normalised in western culture',

And that, was because of the 19th century dress reform movement. Also, overwhelmingly because it was a tool of feminist rebellion. Women were arrested en-masse, for wearing trousers in WW1, and yet they continued to do so, the clothing becoming an increasing point of protest, because before then, 'feminine' clothing, was extremely long skirt which were an actual danger to the female factory workers who were legally obligated to wear them.

The reason a similar movement did not be made for men, is because the male standard clothes were practical and not a legitimate physical danger. So the average man did not feel the need to protest these restrictions.

In fact men did not start using skirts/'feminine clothing' as a tool of rebellion en masse till the LGBT Rights movement.

On the other hand, feminine clothing has been GLOBALLY used as a TOOL OF OPPRESSION.

The modern day western world is one of the only places in World History, for perhaps all of human history, where men's clothing is more greatly monitored then women's. `

I will not mention the country where I am originally from because I feel like I've already said waaaaaay too much about myself online, and i'm paranoid.

But women and those AFAB are currently being shot dead in the streets of my country by morality police for- Not even wearing men's clothing- but just simply wearing SLIGHTLY TOO 'MASCULINE' (practical) CLOTHES.

So don't sit there in your fucking privilege and talk about how femininity in those AMAB is a more transgressive concept than masculinity in AFAB people.

Some of yall really need to learn about people outside your limited ass sphere

[tic-loud-tic-proud]

"Maybe white men wouldn't have overwhelmingly voted for Trump if it wasn't for feminists telling them they're bad all the time!!1!!" Weird how everything men do ends up being women's fault somehow

[lesbianwyllravengard]

"I hate this female character because she is mean" weak as fuck. My girl is a bitch constantly and I'm in love with her