Sometimes I do wish that I were a man. No periods, no symptoms from periods that are painful and heavy like the PMS symptoms due to hormonal imbalances every frikking month and even for lower emphasies on image, men can walk without shirts in public with their fake 8month pregnancy bellies on show and no one will find it indecent.
Being a woman inherently hurts. Women have been menstruating since Homo sapiens were fully evolved. It wasn't until the 19th century that scientists linked periods to ovulation.
Women bodies are linked with pain-childbirths, PMS, menopause etc. While when in pain, men are more likely to be given sedatives And antidepressants.The health gender Gap is fed by perceptions of women as being over emotional and extending the extend of their pain and suffering.
To understand how the male body became the default human construction, we've to go back to the 15th and 16th century where physicians used to employ graverobbers to excavate cadavers.The corpses they brought back became the basis for the earliest understandings of how we move, bleed, digest food, think and also feel...and as female hormonal fluctuations were considered too deviant to make consistent calculations.They were, ofcourse always make...and maleness became the model by which medications were developed.
Ooooh girl.
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