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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is meant by the misogyny? By downplaying women's birth injuries or what? Anyone who believes that a woman can push out a 10-lb human from her insides and be unscathed is seriously deluded. [/quote]

It’s all individual. Maybe a large baby like that always does damage, but medically I have no idea. As someone who was lucky enough to have no birth injuries, I frankly get sick of the narrative that women’s bodies are “ruined” by child bearing. I had two 7 pound babies and am, in fact, completely unscathed. This is not to undermine women who had a different experience, but to say that women and mothers should be treated as individual humans, both by the medical establishment and society at large, rather than as some collective unit. [/quote]

You're missing the point. Did you read the article or simple want to weigh in with your own memory of having a baby. The narrative that women's bodies are ruined is misogynistic because society expects perfect bodies; but this is a separate issue from providing a public platform for pregnant and postpartum women. Many do experience health issues at some point, from physical scars of C-sections to PPD. Most of the time, mothers are left discussing these problems on anonymous websites like this because they aren't given the same pubic platform as other demographics (seriously, do we need another podcast hosted by two white dudes???). Disinterest and downright scorn for women and experts who want to brooch these topics is a collective issue. If we can have these conversations in a more productive way, then they would certainly focus on individual situations and bring much-needed nuance.

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