#women's reproductive health

[theereina]

As far as the 4B movement, men are already planning to just SA/r*pe women with no remorse. They are acknowledging that there will be an increase because of it. Men are in the comments of posts agreeing to happily "participate" in it.

They are laughing at us!!!

Like I said, this was never about the economy or progress for them. Our bodies were on the fucking line; and ,in their minds, they just won control over them!

Reina, signing off for today.

[megasuperhellagay1995]

So I don't make my own post like ever but I wanted to take the time to address how important it is to vote democrat this year! Also to say I will not apologize for the amount of political stuff I have and am going to continue to post. I usually like to stay away from political talk but this election is critical if trump wins again our rights (specifically the LGBTQIA community and women's) are in danger. He will take them away, he will make being queer illegal, he will take away pretty much any and all women's rights. please please go vote its so important for the future of the entire US and for the LGBTQIA community. It's important for Tumblr and AO3! they want to make anything remotely queer considered pornography and illegal. Project 2025 is insanely fucked up and absolutely despicable and honestly a violation of basic human rights and a danger to not only our community and women but also the planet. Trump and project 2025 is a serious threat to anyone transgender or non binary (to anyone who isn't a cis white male actually) they plan to take away all rights and literally make it illegal to be trans. The GOP also plans to refund public schools, remove environmental protections, reduce workplace safety and rights, take away voting protections, reduce taxes for the rich, get rid of social security AND they plan to federally legalize conversion therapy. (conversion is beyond fucked up and absolutely inhumane) DON'T LET TRUMP GET REELECTED! DON'T LET PROJECT 2025 BECOME A REALITY! educate yourself and protect all of our rights please

below is a link to some important information and a link to the out line of project 2025. please educate yourself so you can understand why its so crucial to vote democratic in this coming election.

[whatthehelloh]

[contemplatingoutlander]

This is an important article by Linda Greenhouse, writing in The New York Times. Therefore, the link above is a gift 🎁 link, so anyone can read the article, even if they don't subscribe to the Times.

Below are some excerpts from the article:

To understand today’s Supreme Court, to see it whole, demands a longer timeline. To show why, I offer a thought experiment. Suppose a modern Rip Van Winkle went to sleep in September 2005 and didn’t wake up until last week. Such a person would awaken in a profoundly different constitutional world, a world transformed, term by term and case by case, at the Supreme Court’s hand. To appreciate that transformation’s full dimension, consider the robust conservative wish list that greeted the new chief justice 18 years ago: Overturn Roe v. Wade. Reinterpret the Second Amendment to make private gun ownership a constitutional right. Eliminate race-based affirmative action in university admissions. Elevate the place of religion across the legal landscape. Curb the regulatory power of federal agencies. [...} That was how the world looked on Sept. 29, 2005, when Chief Justice Roberts took the oath of office, less than a month after the death of his mentor, Chief Justice Rehnquist. And this year? By the time the sun set on June 30, the term’s final day, every goal on the conservative wish list had been achieved. All of it. To miss that remarkable fact is to miss the story of the Roberts court. It’s worth reviewing how the court accomplished each of the goals. It deployed a variety of tools and strategies. Precedents that stood in the way were either repudiated outright, as the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision did last year to Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, or were simply rendered irrelevant — abandoned, in the odd euphemism the court has taken to using. In its affirmative action decision declaring race-conscious university admissions to be unconstitutional, Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion did not overturn the 2003 Grutter decision explicitly. But Justice Thomas was certainly correct in his concurring opinion when he wrote that it was “clear that Grutter is, for all intents and purposes, overruled.” Likewise, the court has not formally overruled its Chevron decision. Its administrative-law decisions have just stopped citing that 1984 precedent as authority. The justices have simply replaced Chevron’s rule of judicial deference with its polar opposite, a new rule that goes by the name of the major questions doctrine. Under this doctrine, the court will uphold an agency’s regulatory action on a major question only if Congress’s grant of authority to the agency on the particular issue was explicit. Deference, in other words, is now the exception, no longer the rule. But how to tell a major question from an ordinary one? No surprise there: The court itself will decide. [...] My focus here on what these past 18 years have achieved has been on the court itself. But of course, the Supreme Court doesn’t stand alone. Powerful social and political movements swirl around it, carefully cultivating cases and serving them up to justices who themselves were propelled to their positions of great power by those movements. The Supreme Court now is this country’s ultimate political prize. That may not be apparent on a day-to-day or even a term-by-term basis. But from the perspective of 18 years, that conclusion is as unavoidable as it is frightening.

[comraderosex]

I love you all

[hjellacott]

Why sometimes it is important to have FEMALE gynaecologists

When we talk about wanting female gynaecologists or obstetricians, we often talk about hypothetic things, so I thought I'd share my real, recent experience. I'm a grown up adult and yet I'd never gone to the gynaecologist before until recently. It all started last year, when my periods got odd. I won't go into details, but you know when your instinct urges you to get checked because you know in your gut that something is off? And you know it sounds insane if you say it out loud, and people don't believe you, but you know. So I contacted a GP, managed to convince him to take me seriously, and I got a referral for a gynaecologist. A year later, I was finally called for my appointment.

When I got my paper with my appointment, I was surprised to learn that the examination I was booked for was far more and more invasive / intense than I had thought it would be, so I got very anxious, because I've heard from friends who had terrible experiences at the gyn and I was worried sick. Will it hurt? Will they be too harsh? Will I bleed? Will I be really uncomfortable? Then I had worse concerns: will I have a dishonourable doctor/nurse who takes advantage of me? So I decided the best way to ease my concerns was to ensure that no males were in the room. A woman wouldn't rape me, a woman wouldn't touch me without knowledge of what it feels like, a woman would be able to be empathetic with me, put herself in my shoes, and try and help me. A woman wouldn't get turned on. A woman will also have had, at some point, her first intense examination and will understand my worries and anxiety. Men? They'll lack empathy, they'll be too brusque, they might sexually abuse me, they might hurt me simply because they don't know how delicate you need to be, or mansplain, or discard my concerns, or all of the above.

It was important for my doctor to be a woman.

Unfortunately, we live in the day and age where if you call your doctor, hospital or surgery in the NHS to try and ensure your doctor is a woman, sometimes you'll be met with the wrong person who will think you're transphobic and be really rude and disrespectful and refuse to help. It took me 2 days on the phone, calling a variety of hospitals, hospital departments and NHS numbers, until I was able to find a sweet lady who was happy to ensure my doctor was female and to my surprise, she didn't even ask me to explain why it was important to me.

In the end, my appointment went just fine. I had a young, understanding, caring, gentle and lovely female doctor who was also POC, so she actually gave me a lot of insight. I arrived saying "I'm so sorry but I've never done this before and i'm so anxious" and the whole time she was listening to me, comforting me, calming me, explaining me exactly what she was doing bit by bit, being patient, empathetic... She actually told me I'd done well coming and gotten checked and explained how important it was, even if it didn't seem like a big deal or even if I wasn't sexually active at the time. Unfortunately I was right and the doctor found evidence of a more serious health problem, so I'll be getting more tests and things, but I was so happy with the doctor I got. When she told me what I might have, which is something that runs in my family, I told her I didn't know anything about that problem, so she sat and patiently and kindly told me all she knew about it, explained it's a problem many women live with and that in ethnicities such as hers or mine, it could be even more common, but she gave me the magical line "us women have had to deal with things like this since always and we always pull through, so don't worry, there's a lot we can do" and I left not feeling worried at all, rather, empowered, calmer and confident.

So don't fucking undermine the importance of being able to choose exactly the doctor you want.

[bubbles081021]

Hey guys I was just wondering if anyone knew about anyone that is an extremely good obgyn or someone who's really good with reproductive issues for women in central Oklahoma and southern Idaho? The doctors that I've been seeing keep hinting at endometriosis but don't actually want to do anything about it and exercise aggravates whatever is going on so I know that the pelvic floor therapy one wants me to try isn't going to work (not like I can afford to go to physical therapy in this economy anyway). I just need someone that will genuinely listen to me and try to understand what's going on. I would prefer if it weren't a male doctor however, for reasons I'm sure many will understand. I just need some help that isn't them trying to put me on birth control to stop my period.

As of right now I'm getting nexplanon put in on February 22 but if it doesn't work I just need something to do and someone to go to because I'm tired of dealing with the pain. It's not muscular because if it was then why does it hurt during ovulation and my period always in the same spots.

If anyone has any ideas on someone good in those areas please comment or dm me and if you've been diagnosed with endometriosis can you give me some tips that you've found to manage symptoms? Thanks. 😔

[andsheoverthinks]

why i'm skeptical of the success rate of an american sex strike (re: roe v wade and twitter discourse)

tldr: if men don't get laid, it's entirely women's fault (according to the patriarchy). although we should abstain in order to protect ourselves from harm, we can't expect anything to change as a result.

*an aside: i don't really like the terminology of 'sex strike.' women aren't employees, and sex is not a job.

you may or may not remember alexandra hunt's tweets earlier this year. here's a refresher:

obviously, a right to sex is an absurd idea, and i say this as someone who considers themselves to be involuntarily celibate (in the original, non-hateful, self-effacing sense as when a female Canadian college student coined the term back in the 1990s [source][source]). you have more of a right to drink a gallon of chocolate milk a day.

alexandra hunt used this image as evidence for a right to sex; the fact that young men are apparently having far less frequent sex compared to women than ever before in the united states is problematic and a sign of deeper problems, and women must remedy this by whoring themselves out to the nearest buyer/converting their vaginas into a soup kitchen. again, this is absurd for obvious reasons.

even a MGTOW (who at the very least generally mildly dislike women) website called her out [source]:

And here’s where she goes terribly, terribly wrong. As I and many other people have argued before, a “right to sex” is fundamentally incompatible with the right of others to say no to sex. And we can’t use sex workers to “pick up the slack” and have sex with men no one else will have sex with. If you spend even a few minutes reading the Incels.is forums — the most popular incel site by far — you’ll see that there are good reasons why no one is having sex with these guys. It’s not because they’re too ugly, or because their wrists are too small — or any of the other reasons incels cite for their sexual failures. It’s because they’re nasty, bitter, and often quite dangerous boys and men who fundamentally hate women as much as, if not more so, than they hate themselves. These are the sorts of men that most women reject instinctively — and that sex workers try to screen out.

as you can see, us women are apparently already on somewhat of a sex strike. since the educational and financial liberation of women, we have less and less incentive to couple with potentially dangerous/abusive men, which given their online behavior and links with mass murderer, incels often are. i'm certain the number of young men not having sex in a year has only increased since the pandemic and post roe era.

it's interesting that this rise in sexless young men has accompanied gamergate, the incel community, and the rise of misogynistic podcasters/youtubers/influencers.

[last year, a man killed seven women (six of whom were Asian) and one man at a massage parlor. he claimed it was due to sex addiction, saying he saw the women at the parlor as 'sexual temptation' and therefore had to eliminate them. btw sex addiction isn't even in the dsm.]

[there's also 'fresh and fit,' two guys who host a podcast in miami. i found out about them because one of my childhood friends moved there (i think she may be involved in the sex industry) and went on their podcast. the concept of the podcast is that they bring pretty, but regretfully shallow and not very smart women who are themselves misogynistic, talk about their misogynistic ideals, and berate their guests whilst their chat calls the women names like 'whore' and 'free use'. women are compared to cars and other objects. women should put out on the third date, but also not be whores. additionally, they also hate Black women to an extreme degree which is just the cherry on top. i feel i'm lucky, though, that misogynists usually hate Black women and avoid us like the plague and so i don't have to deal with them as much as white and Asian women do.]

In a nutshell, the hosts take the predictable stance that women ought to serve in a subservient role — you know, like in the kitchen — otherwise men won’t be interested. They argue that women who are successful are not appealing to men, and hold that while men should be allowed multiple sexual partners, women should remain faithful to one man. Ironically, given how busy these guys are sleeping with multiple women (allegedly), one wonders if they’re glad that the women they sleep with, at least, reject their advice. ... So, why are Fresh & Fit popular? The answer is only partly because Gaines and Weekes appeal to the type of guys who lay the blame for their own dating woes on women.

as women, we are socialized from birth to self-critique. is our personality annoying? our breasts too small? stomach too flabby? face too asymmetric? if no one likes us/the way we present ourselves, we are trained to try our hardest to change -- to shave more, wear more makeup, get plastic surgery, be less argumentative, act more agreeable, smile more, et cetera. women aren't socialized to believe they have a right to sex. therefore, when rejected, we simply believe that there's a set of criteria which we haven't met and therefore we should attempt to determine what said criteria is and adjust to match it. this can be as simple as wearing different clothes or as dramatic as expensive and dangerous plastic surgery [source]. my parents would often tell me as a child things like 'i feel bad for your future husband, don't nag/be so aggressive' or 'with your stretch marks, you'll never get a boyfriend' or 'your eczema scars look horrible, you'll never get a boyfriend' etc so this type of fix-yourself-for-the-male-gaze- thinking becomes very natural to us. on the other hand, my male cousin would be asked at the same age what kind of girl he found attractive, what type of girlfriend he wanted, etc, without any admonishment/direction as to what flaws he needed to fix.

it's not surprising that women expect that if since when we are rejected, we modulate our behavior, attitude, and presentation, men will too if we reject them enough. if no one wants to sleep with us, we assume it's for a reason (usually our looks). this is not universal.

well, we are rejecting them, more than we ever have. and instead of a mass realization amongst men that maybe (1) the majority of them are misogynistic shitheads or at the very least enablers and they should stop behaving that way (2) if women are less likely to fuck them if abortion is illegal, it might be in their best interest to keep abortion legal, this mini sex strike has done the opposite.

a perfect example of cognitive dissonance theory, men have changed their worldview but not their behavior. it's modern western women's fault, you see, women who aren't marriageable, women who are slutty, women who are prudes, women who could have her pick of a hundred nice guys at any given time but instead we all get ran through by the same ten top 5% of men. i've even heard some rancid and moronic youtubers suggest that the world is 80% women and 20% men or vice versa in order to justify our 'bad behavior' of not putting out/getting ran through by a mysterious and elusive subpopulation of men.

women are often berated for not putting out [source][source][source], as if sex is automatically owed as a natural consequence of going on a date.

When Alaska Gurl questioned her date about his last-minute decision to go Dutch, he asked, “Are you going to give me some a**?,” inquiring as to whether she’s willing to have sex once they left the restaurant if he picks up the tab.

To that, she responded with an emphatic, “No,” which prompted the less-than-chivalrous chap to hand over her bill, totaling $42.74 (AU$60)

“F**k you,” barked Alaska Gurl. The man sharply retorted: “See? That’s your problem. You don’t want to.” Adding insult to injury, he said, “Hey, how do you plan on getting home?,” suggesting that he wouldn’t be escorting Alaska Gurl back to her residence and stranding her as a punishment for rebuffing his sexual advances.

“You’re f**king taking me home,” she spat, to which he asked, “[Do] you got gas [money]?”

After yelling “No,” Alaska Gurl zoomed in on the man’s face and spouted off a warning to his future inamoratas, saying: “You guys, he’s making me pay for my food, because I won’t have sex with him. That’s a sad shame.”

“Look at this man,” she continued. “Don’t ever go out with him. Don’t give him your number. Just f**king run!”

this fury comes from the idea of being owed something, of having a right to sex. even employers don't have a right to labor from employees; that's why employees are paid, and why striking makes sense at all and why it is so powerful. since the employer is not owed labor, employees may withhold it in order to pressure for better conditions, pay, et cetera.

for a significant portion of the male population, the response to not getting laid for a while is to hate women to a violent degree. on the other hand, we have the joke that long-term single women like to knit, eat microwave dinners, and adopt cats.

it's often quoted that women initiate 80% of divorces; yet i know of no large cultural zeitgeist amongst husbands to please and accommodate their wives to stave this off. instead, it is said that women who divorce simply want to get their hands on the alimony. this is despite the fact that 30% [source] to 50% [source] of women in het marriages outearn their husbands. in many cases, women are paying men alimony. i know women in my family who are paying their husbands alimony.

no, so even if we all as a global collective refused to have sex with men for an indeterminate amount of time, i doubt that men as a global collective would decide to change their behavior, because, at the end of the day, alexandra hunt did voice what a lot of men (and some even more deluded women) believe. men are owed sex. a women saying no is depriving him of a civil right -- the use of her body. alexandra hunt said the quiet part out loud. women choosing to exercise their reproductive and sexual freedom by abstaining causes fury and indignation, not self-reflection and contemplation.

while this 'right to sex' idea exists, a sex strike will never work because the basis of a strike is that the labor of employees* puts employers* in debt; our employers* will simply believe they are being wronged. of course, never believe that you owe anyone sex, the right that you do have is the right to say no. but don't hold out for a miracle. let's go on a sex strike (especially if you live in a red/pro birth state)! but for us!

and last of all, dear men, if you've made it this far: have you considered smiling more [source]?

[onlytiktoks]

↑ Link to the transcript

For those who want to judge Lauren for using Marijuana during her pregnancy; it's called hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) or extreme morning sickness. It leads to weight loss during pregnancy and can lead to miscarriage or hospitalization.

[welcometomypov]

Do you want talk about the REAL danger to medical professionals? States who ban doctors from even TALKING to a worried patient about the fact that an abortion can be a REVERSIBLE PROCEDURE.

States who ban doctors and nurses from giving scared women the ability to stop the 100% chemical pill process that was inflicted upon them with a procedure that's SAFE, NORMAL, and EFFECTIVE.

You want to talk threats to women and doctors?

Then let's talk about Colorado.

[esuterunokitsune]

You know, I'm aware that menstruation is hellish and horrible.

But also like. Men's reproductive system is kind of boring y'know? They just make the same stuff all the time. Almost no changes there.

Meanwhile, women have two different cycles that overlap and change the amount of hormones in our body by a lot each month. It's like memorising game combos.

[mythigal1966]

Asked And Answered

[wr1t3w1tm3]

Girlhood is...

Discussion of female reproductive care below the cut, so IDC but if you don't wanna look don't look.

Girlhood is reading your friends post-endometriosis surgery PT instructions (specific to the post op pelvic exam) and hearing about how bad it hurt to get the pelvic exam and deciding you're just not gonna get one.

[inthemaelstrom]

[mindfulnutritionsblog]

Navigating Women's Health: A Comprehensive Guide to Obstetrics and Gynecology Care

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