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[–]lodxvera 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't suffer from PCOS, but I do suffer from vaginismus and whilst I haven't seen many TRAs on the subreddit, I have seen posts regarding the subreddit and how the language used is not inclusive enough.

Like we have an entire community of women here that are physically unable to have sex with their partners when they want to, who are made to feel worthless because women are valued largely on their sexual value in today's society, who can't even put a tampon in without extreme pain, and these people think that the word 'ladies/women/females' in posta regarding a medical condition of the vagina upsetting them is more important?

Sure, it's easy to use inclusive language, but it's also easy to ignore gendered language in a post written by someone very emotional about their medical condition.