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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Menopause is so hot right now.[/quote]

Someone enjoys pushing HRT. [/quote]

I’m all for women exploring all the options and not settling for years of discomfort. There’s been this notion that we cannot talk about it which means we all just need to suck it up and suffer through the hot flashes, sleepless nights and dry skin. Oh and don’t forget the mood swings.

If you’re a candidate for MHT/HRT, go for it. [/quote]

I think you’re soft-pedaling the contempt that people, including the woman up thread, have for women being honest about the difficult to life-limiting nature of symptoms for some women. Look at her response - she used nothing and baby (according to her…) she’s killing the game!  Misogyny in medicine has its many and sundry foot soldiers. I mean, I’m personally not overweight and don’t suffer from major depression or lung cancer so why can’t those wimps like deal amirite?

A companion piece to this convo might be had with a separate Serial podcast, The Retrievals, about a scum of the Earth Yale fertility nurse who stole fentanyl directly from fertility patients undergoing surgeries and replaced it with saline; the scum of the Earth supervisors ignored, were impatient with, and did nothing when HUNDREDS of women expressed that they were in excruciating pain - they were having unmedicated reproductive surgery! For years (it seems possible this went on for 4 years despite what the university claims), hundreds of women were written off as hysterics and whiners. There’s a through line here. Women’s pain - women’s experiences- are mocked and ignored, as often as not abetted by other women. Anecdata - obnoxious smug witch anecdata - a la I Didn’t Need Meds, except for my personality which can’t be fixed - is somehow a stand-in for proper statistical analysis and conversation about relative risk.

It is what it is.

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