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[–]MezozoicGay 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

My friend** have congenital heart defect, and she has heart attacks almost yearly. She is going to different doctors to treat this, and most doctors are saying that Heart and blood systems is slightly different in male and female bodies, however, most studies are made only on males, so sometimes not every doctors can even handle woman heart attack. Women heart diseases are very understudied. And it is something so crucial as hearth that both males and females have - I can imagine how understudied everything that is female-exclusive. And if "transwomen are women" will become norm, then women health will be tested on transwomen too, while their male body is completely different to female body?

I don't remember when exactly, but on our history lessons we were studying history of biology and medicine as well, and there was one part I remembered (i think it was either in 1700th or 1800th) - hygiene, general medicine and pills just appeared in the western society, however, women were still dying from diseases even when were taking pills that were helping men, and even when following hygiene rulls women were still more often getting sick or die. And it was only because it was all tested and developed only on male bodies, and then assumed that women are just "smaller males" so they need same treatment, just in smaller dosages. I was really surprised how illogical people were then (but seems nothing is changing and history doing circles).

I was reminded about this in same article, as it was written by old cardiologist.

** English is so weird language. My language is gendered and all words there based on sex of a person (plus sex-neutral or generalizing words), and there is no word for "gender" in it as well, only words for biological sex (I wonder if international language was not English, this gender discussions would appear at all or not?). So I am all time trying to write "girlfriend" in meaning of "women friend", however, in English "girlfriend" means mainly "girl I am in relations with" while friend means just a friend, mainly male one. Gladly there is boyfriend word too, but it is rare in english, in most cases there is "man"-word which means both males and "all humans", and then something is added to "man" part of word to become woman specified. So man is default and measure to everything in English. In my language gendered words either very different or even when they are the same, only difference is that they ending with different letter. This means most words for woman are not including "man" in it. So English for me feels so weird and so inherently sexist.

Sorry for random thoughts.

[–]Elysian 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

No, it's even stranger than that. Women can have girlfriends that they are not in relations with. I have lots of girlfriends. I can only have one boyfriend however. Men can have one girlfriend and no boyfriends at all unless they are gay. The logic is hard to follow and honestly it doesn't make much sense.

I'm brushing up on my French at the moment and I'm having difficulty with all the gendered nouns because they feel inherently sexist to me. Why is a table feminine, who made this decision? Is there something inherently womanly about tables? Why is milk masculine, doesn't make sense.

[–]Apricot_Ibex 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I guess it’s because men in Anglophone countries are so terrified of looking gay with their bros that they have to continuously shout NO HOMO, so straight men can’t say “my boyfriend” about their male friends, or wear pink shirts in their presence, lol.

[–]Elysian 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I know right? Pink shirts, of all things. Lots of cultures are worse though, and I think it is getting better over time.