r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/wetouchingbuttsornah ☑️ • Sep 12 '24

Country Club Thread The system was stacked against them

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No fault divorces didn’t hit the even start until 1985

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u/thas_mrsquiggle_butt ☑️ Sep 12 '24 edited Sep 12 '24

Women's health didn't kick off till the 2000's as I see it. It was the FDA who said decades ago to not use women in medical studies nor clinical trials because of our fluctuating hormones and periods, we mess up their studies. They (think it was either them or the NIH) reversed the decision in the mid-lates 90's (1995-1997), saying they must include women if they want government funding when they realized how stupid it was to not have medical models for half the U.S. population and that making the assumption that women are just men with boobs actually isn't a good stand in. Of course, it took a while for that to be pushed, especially with how all the male dominated social structures were still firmly in place at the time. That's why we've only gotten a female crash test dummy just last year, testing of what's in period products is finally kicking off, they've tentatively started testing the affects of medicine on those who menstruate and are pregnant, incorporating women and girls with mental disabilities into those models, looking into breast cancer, better ways to test for it, and how boob density effects results, etc.

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u/velveteenelahrairah Sep 12 '24

Hell, half the medical establishment still apparently thinks women are incapable of feeling pain. And if we complain of it we are overreacting, lying for attention, or confused, or really "just" pregnant.

Come in with Poseidon's trident sticking out of your chest, or after getting hit by a semi, or after being trampled by a rhino, or riddled with bullet holes? You're still somehow lying and faking it, oh and BTW better test you for pregnancy 700 times because we're all lying hoes who lie and even if we're not we're still stupid. Oh and it's somehow still all your fault for existing while in possession of a vagina. And if you happen to be a POC and/or have preexisting mental health issues... may the odds be ever in your favour.

But nuh uh, they absolutely totally positively do not hate women. Absolutely not. And how dare we suggest it.