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Icytrees

@ Icytrees @sh.itjust.works

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Clinically depressed, chronically online,Socialist discordian statist for open science,Independent journalism and gay crime.

My Communities:

!Independent_Media@lemmy.today — Independent world journalism news feed.

!indy_news_canada@sh.itjust.works — Independent news from Canada.

!wildfeed@sh.itjust.works — Trash. Global, diverse news, reports, blogs and listicles.

!art_alchemist_guild@lemmy.today — Ask, share, learn and show off with the most DIY of artists.

!cool_rocks@lemmy.today — For cool rocks.

!everyday_socialism@lemmy.ml — For everyday socialism.

I keep making communities. Please help.

Other versions of me:

wren@lemmy.todaywoad@lemmy.ml

Former versions of me: (I don't check these accounts)

ceedoestrees@lemmy.worldicytrees@lemmy.todaytrash_goblin@piefed.zip

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  • I am a woman who has been to the doctor. I get asked "Are you pregnant or breastfeeding," all the goddamn time.

    Weird you think disagreement is an insult.

    Countless men who have never been a woman in a doctor's office don't get it. Lemmy is about 73% men. They're missing the point for the same reason this comic exists, because women's experiences are minimalized in healthcare.

    All the panels are related, that's how a narrative works. A lack of media literacy doesn't make it wrong, because women get it without needing an explanation. Unless the guys in the comments are actual doctors, they're just a large volume of unsupported opinions. It is not routine to ask about a period in an emergency, the medical emergency is the context.

    Again, the comic isn't about pregnancy, it's about dismissing women's pain and blaming problems on hormones.

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    ...women in pain are much more likely than men to receive prescriptions for sedatives, rather than pain medication, for their ailments. One study even showed women who received coronary bypass surgery were only half as likely to be prescribed painkillers, as compared to men who had undergone the same procedure.

    Another source

    Women are more likely to encounter scepticism regarding the severity or legitimacy of their symptoms as a result of gender biases and cultural norms ingrained in the medical discourse about women’s bodies and diseases over centuries.

    Yet another source

    Despite medical advancements, women frequently face underdiagnosis and inadequate treatment of pain (Pieretti et al., 2016). Healthcare providers often dismiss or minimize women’s pain, labeling it as “emotional” or “psychosomatic” rather than physical (Samulowitz et al., 2017).

    edit: You know, as a mod of a community, I can see all the votes there, right? I'm just glad you found a healthy outlet.

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  • NO

    As WalrusDragonOnABike so perfectly put it:

    Its satirizing the tendency for doctors to be more dismissive of women having pain than men, for example. This would be more of a problem with non-visible causes of pain, especially ones that predominantly effect women such as chronic migraines. This comic extrapolates this to comedic effect by using a gunshot wound instead.

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    I love how a 4 panel comic about dismissal of women’s medical concerns is getting multiple commentors who want to dismiss those problems because a 4 panel comic doesn’t explicitly go into the a specific nuance they are focused on. Plenty of people get the punchline just fine without it.

    It's not about pregnancy. It's about dismissing pain and blaming symptoms on hormones.

    SOURCE

    ANOTHER SOURCE

    YET ANOTHER SOURCE

    I have more sources. They're bookmarked. Does anyone need them or do we get it yet?

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  • Yep, there's a lot of good information there and I sensed a bit of a lack of understanding about periods and healthcare.

    From that same article:

    However, sex with a penis in the five days before ovulation can also lead to pregnancy since sperm can live up to five days inside of you when it’s nice and happy swimming around in the type of cervical mucus you have coating your vagina at this point in the cycle.

    Change and irregularities in your cycle make it hard to precisely calculate of the day of ovulation.

    The context of this is still the comic where a woman with a gunshot wound is complaining of a gunshot wound, where the doctor has asked when her last period occurred instead of taking care of the open would. Something you kinda glossed over in favor of knocking at the weakest part of my comment — my use of the word "nothing." This tells me you don't really care about understanding another viewpoint, you're trying to score a point in the argument.

    Anyway, if someone's last period was three weeks ago, they could be pregnant. If it was six months ago, they could be pregnant. If it was seven months ago, they could have an IUD or another birth control, which could cause a drug interaction, so that's good to know. If she's on her period right now, she could be breastfeeding, and studies have shown local anaesthetic will shows up in breast milk.

    In Canada, I get asked if I'm pregnant or breastfeeding if there might be an issue, not this roundabout period date bullshit.

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  • I didn't say the menstrual cycle though, I said the last period date. No matter how much time has passed since someone's last period, it doesn't tell you whether they're pregnant or not.

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  • Riddle me this:

    You're a doctor. A patient comes in to your office, 5'3", woman, 175lbs, looks hydrated — you ask her last period date, she says "about four weeks ago."

    Do you now know anything about whether or not she's pregnant?

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  • I don't want to assume your sex, but I have a strong suspicion.

    I'm highly irregular because of a medical condition, the same condition that sets my ability to naturally get pregnant around 0.01% It's fine, I have a terrible phobia of pregnancy anyway. My condition is not uncommon, nor is it the only one that causes irregular or skipped periods. Most women experience late or skipped periods at some point during their supposedly regular menstruating years anyway.

    You know what gets you pregnant? Having a working female reproductive system and making sweet, penetrative love to someone who has a working male reproductive system.

    Here are some neat reading materials on menstruating: https://ourbodiesourselves.org/subject-area/menstrual-cycle/p2

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  • And yet the last period date has nothing to do with whether someone is pregnant or not. A large percentage of women have irregular periods, or don't get a period due to birth control or other factors. A number of doctors have spoken out about the relevance of questions they're required to ask about women's periods in their chart software.

    In the case of the comic, she has an open wound on her arm the doctor isn't immediately a-dressing (pun intended.)

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  • I go to most of wife’s appointments

    Have you considered this could be the reason she gets asked if she's pregnant?

    appointments

    As in, not an emergency. In an emergency the first imperative is to stop the immediate health threats, in this case the gunshot wound. The doctor doesn't need to know about menstrual health do his ABCs.

    Also, as someone with extensive experience with Canadian healthcare, and I've held certifications up to OFA 3 (not a big deal, but it did qualify me to intubate, immobilize, take a health record, etc.) I've been to emergency rooms in four different provinces and I've been on enough different meds to fill a small pharmacy. At most I get asked if I could be pregnant, but that comes after my immediate conditions have been managed and we start discussing meds.

    I think either your wife has a shitty doctor, the doctor actually asks if she's pregnant and you're deliberately misquoting to support your argument, or she's seeing her regular doctor for a checkup - where menstrual health is a reasonable thing to ask about and/or has a related medical condition regarding her period.

    And completely missing the point of the comic, which is about how the immediate health issue is being dismissed for the reasons I already stated.

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  • I'm in Canada. I've been to the hospital more than most people. I've never been asked about my period when it wasn't something directly related, and I get put on a lot of meds. Sometimes they ask if I could be pregnant, but that's it.

    Asking about the last period when immediate concerns have nothing to do with reproduction is about how women's health and concerns get shafted in some most countries.

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  • It's more common in the U.S. and other countries where women's reproductive rights have been eroded/never existed.

    There's a few reasons, and none of them have to do with women's health. How do I know? I'm a woman in Canada who's been to the hospital a lot for both pre-existing conditions and unrelated emergencies, I never get asked this question.

    First, the comic making light of how women's problems are dismissed and blamed on hormones, when multiple medical and psychological studies over the last century indicate women are no more emotional than men, and menstruation doesn't effect mood outside of unusual conditions.

    Second, it's about reproductive rights. How women's immediate health problems are ignored in favor of protecting an unborn child they may or may not want. It's further infantilizing because doctors ask about the last period, which indicates nothing, instead of just asking about pregnancy.

  • WHY???

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  • It's bees.

  • [meme request] Dinosaur or frog memes for a sad friend

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  • Anybody else's daydreams have continuity and lore?

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  • Currently down a new a rabbit hole. Thank you.

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  • I've heard the healthier the wombat, the cubier the poo.

  • Convince me of a better system than capitalism that could actually be implemented

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  • That's because there is no country that's been governed by a single ideology for very long. Even in the last hundred years in America, each of the many parts of government have aligned with different policies as politicians fought for the reigns. It's not a simple dichotomy.

    You asked a question you don't understand.

  • What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?

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  • Today, the government has banned all organized religion in order to curtail the fomenting of radical ideas in the isolation of cults throughout the country.

    Feel free to calmly and scientifically, of your own free will, help us usher in a new era of rationlism and skeptical inquiry.

    To this end, all entities receiving government funds will be reviewed for spiritual and dogmatic thinking. School library indexes will be purged of media containing unscientific themes which could lead to disorders of thought, titles include Harry Potter and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

    Additionally, the department of rational authority has banned the following archetypes of delusion:

    Churches

    Ashrams

    Corporate wellness retreats

    Reiki practices

    Yoga studios

    And any organization that uses the following words: Self care, hollistic, and manifesting.

  • So hard to get it right this time of year...

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  • Sorry heat exhaustion is making typos.

  • So hard to get it right this time of year...

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  • I know it's a joke but if anyone out there ever feels like they're always too hot or too cold (and it's not a medical thing,) check the tags on your clothes. Seriously, the kind of fibre you wear makes a huge difference in how you feel. I live where it gets below 30°C in the winter, where people ask me how the hell I'm not freezing. Well, I have a cotton tee, a merino wool stanfield, thick wool socks, wool fleece hoodie and a wool hat.

    Edit: I'm not a lava golem, just a dumbass. NEGATIVE 30°C

  • Does anyone actually have home safes or does everyone just use bank safes? (or do you hide stuff under your mattress?)

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  • But you don't know which CRT television.

  • Does anyone actually have home safes or does everyone just use bank safes? (or do you hide stuff under your mattress?)

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  • I keep my valuables in an old CRT television that weighs more than sisyphus's boulder. No one's stealing that.