Women Scare Me
Lately there have been several discussions on the Okayplayer boards about Women and our bodies. There have been some wonderful, life-affirming exchanges of experience that really make me feel good about us as a whole.
There seems to be a small, very small, trend of Women stepping back from male doctors and masculine ideology subscribing female doctors, and asking other Women as to what works for them.
That is cuntfabulous to the highest degree.
What does scare me though, is the very obvious lack of knowledge that most Women seem to have about their bodies and what they are doing to them.
The major one that really bothers me is the one that relates to the pill. Women are asking, “How can I have a regular cycle without being on the pill?” That’s a fantastic question and I am so very, very glad that it is being asked. What scares me is that by asking this question it means that they presume that being on the pill regulates their cycle.
It so very, very does not.
In fact, the pill takes away our cycle…
I am going to quote “A New View of a Woman’s Body” by the Federation of Feminist Women’s Health Centers:
“The Pill works by chemically inducing a state in which the activity of the ovaries is suppressed so that a woman does not ovulate. For many women, this condition lasts from three to six months after they stop taking the Pill and can last up to a year and a half longer. A few women’s ovaries never ovulate or produce normal levels of hormones again.
When the Pill was first marketed, women did not bleed at all, and they didn’t like it. So drug manufacturers “doctored” the Pill so women would have cyclic bleeding. This blood, however, is not a period. It is drug-withdrawal bleeding promoted by abruptly discontinuing the hormone-like drugs, either by not taking Pills for seven days or by taking sugar pills.”
Now, I am not going to pretend that I knew exactly how the pill worked until I got that cunty coolest to the nth power book I just quoted from, but I can say that I knew the pill stopped ovulation and that the blood experienced was false blood.
It really scares me that Women are unaware of this and yet they take this pill by the millions every year. How is it so that we come to ingest and consequentially do things to our bodies that we are unaware of doing..?
That?s just not right at all…
And it is also absolutely petrifying.
Just for cunt loves sake, I am also going to quote what that same book says about the IUD, because that scared the shit out of me when I read it:
?No one knows exactly how the IUD works. It make actually scrape the implantation off the uterine wall; or it may cause a low grade infection in the uterus, creating numerous white blood cells which may kill the sperm; or it may cause the uterus to contract continuously in an effort to expel the foreign object within, and thus expel any implantation within as well.?
Holy, cunt loving fuck! Did you know that, because I certainly didn?t!
Also, as I ranted on Koku?s site the other day, why indeed do men go into the profession of gynaecology? Or, the more poignant question to me, is how on earth can they be allowed to?
Everything a man learns about wombs and the female reproductive system is either theoretic or second hand. They have no womb, no semblance of our reproductive body, everything is second hand to them.
If you don?t have something, how on earth can you speculate on what is the correct and healthy way for it to operate? I don?t give a flying fuck what textbooks / men tell me if my body contradicts it. If my body says, ?Hey Tankie, I bleed once every three months and I have no pains and there is nothing blocking me and I feel super dooper healthy!? Then there is nothing wrong with me. The End. That is just the way my body likes to operate. A text book tells me I am irregular or there is something hideously deformed and unhealthy with my cunt. Ah fuck off, my cunt is happy, she?s just not as vigorous as other cunts…
If my cunt happens to be on the juicy side, (which it is), then according to textbooks I have leucorrhoea which is seen to be nasty and often disease indicating. I have no disease, I have a perfectly healthy cunt, I am just on the juicy side. It seems that if we are not on that perfect little piece of twine exactly between dusty, dry arid desert and enough lubrication for a dick to get up there with ease, we have something wrong with us.
Again, FUCK OFF.
Another thought I raised to Koku is, are there prick doctors? I am not aware of a whole field of medicine circling like vultures over mans precious little vulnerable sausage. Why is that?
Why is it that we have a myriad of supposed diseases and disorders that warrant a whole, special field of doctors. Whereas men?s yeast infections, impotence, STD?s and hormones do not warrant such advertising as their own special doctors..?
This creates a paradigm that our wombs are, by their very nature, disorderly, diseased, irregular and imbalanced and whatever else the medical profession / men think of to dirty and degrade our bodies. Theirs, however, their bodies are so perfectly healthy and subsequently not in need of special help…
Anyway, to leave off before I loose fingertips between keys, I do want to send every Woman that comes here to the Feminist Women?s Health Centre?s website to learn things from them.
Please, Woman do yourself and your daughters, niece?s etc. a favour and learn about yourself from Women who actually give a fuck about your body as more than an epicentre for disease…
June 25th, 2002 at 11:14 pm
Holy Freaking Batgirl, dude!! I had no idea that these products were so debilitating to the health and reproductive wellness of women! I just never partook because it seemed so unnatural.
For one, I can go on the record as saying I have never taken a single birth control pill or considered an IUD, because I don’t believe in disrupting natural hormonal processes such as menstruation and ovulation through birth control pills or INSERTING A DEVICE IN MY UTERUS. There’s so little that we know about these products, and our bodies aren’t all the same, so we don’t know how they will effect us each on an individual level. These processes are very invasive and volatile to our feminine makeup.
You are so on point with this entry! Who ARE these men to tell us how we’re supposed to feel? And only I know when MY cunt is supposed to feel on an individual level anyway. Even another woman doesn’t have the right to tell me that much even if her degree says so.
Gynecologists should not be men. And it’s as simple as that. They have no right to enter this field, because they will never understand how our bodies function. No matter how many books they read, or cases they study, this is not an area where we should be “treated” by a man.
June 26th, 2002 at 1:24 am
i was so sad for myself when i had to start taking the pill again {they put me on it when i was 15 cause of similar problems} because i can’t take the pain of my cycle and pain pills never help. i’m still anti-pill tho, and shit like the shot they give or norplants…all of that is worse. the pill and the induced 28 day cycle was actually created my a catholic doctor and thus the way the days are typically arranged for the pill and such. i remember i ranted about it here - {dude, look how old that sucker is! from my infant days in design!} - http://femmme.diaryland.com/28thday.html
it all needs to be investigated by women more. women with medical experience, women from different cultures, women with special training in all sorts of areas cause it just have never been studied by US. hmpf.
June 26th, 2002 at 10:57 pm
the part about male gynecologists- it is a rare occaision that i stick up for male doctors, but here’s my 2 cents. i understand what you’re saying, and i for one prefer a female doctor. that’s my personal preference based on experience.
but i don’t believe that just because you don’t have a cunt it makes you automatically not a good cunt doctor. in the american medical system, 9 times out of 10 women doctors are still going to be JUST AS BAD as males. it’s sad but true…it has to do with so many things including the training they receive and the influences they are under (drug companies, HMOs, etc). saying that a man can’t be a good cunt doc is like saying someone who’s never had a baby can’t be a good obstetrician. it is my belief that if you receive good training, listen to your patients, educate yourself, and really try to understand, a doctor can go into any field. i mean- i would be mad if they said women couldn’t be good urologists for males simply because they have cunts.
i dunno if you catch my drift?
basically what i’m trying to say is don’t think that you’re going to be treated well just because your doc has the same body parts as you, similar pigmentation, or lives in your hood. screen your doctor CAREFULLY. it’s so crazy how we put our LIVES in the hands of these people, but we use more discretion in picking out shoes.
regardless of what sex/race/whatever your doc is, when you’re a patient, it’s going to suck big time if you’re a woman, a minority or poor. yay american medical system.
(all this being said as i try and write my med school personal statement. how ironic)
ps lovely seeing you yesterday!
June 27th, 2002 at 8:17 pm
to address your points fellow supercunter:
1) i did include women in my bad cunt doctor lists. women that subscribe to a male or perhaps western (?) way of looking at our bodies are just as bad to me. it’s about not looking at the body holistically…
2) i didn’t know what urology was so i looked it up and it said: “The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the urinary tract and urogenital system.” we all have urinary systems. mens just happen to be inside their penis’. so yes i would be mad because we all have the same system, just in different locales…
3) i honestly don’t think that men should be cunt doctors. if they was a branch of medicine that related solely to the penis and it’s dis-eases then i really don’t think women would make good prick doctors. it’s an imagined thing as opposed to a lived thing…
in general though, i really am anti orthodox medicine as i am far too much of a hippy and prefer to see the body as a whole…
having said that, good luck with your statement and i think you would make a good doctor.
June 28th, 2002 at 2:39 pm
kaya, i cannot concur with you. i think gender has a lot to do with proper gynecological treatment. schooling and hospital residencies will never make a man TRULY understand the vagina, as i shall never know what it is like to have a penis. any queries or concerns about my cunt that i share with a male doctor will be solved by information he was taught through textbook or case by case methods. he can never actually KNOW. a female doctor can empathize with me, and be more in tune with my needs. this is not to say that every female doctor is a good one, or that all male gynecologists are morally or ethically bad, but as a preference, this is not a matter that should be discussed with a male.
June 28th, 2002 at 6:01 pm
thanks for your comments. i catch what you ladies are saying… and i do understand. one thing that i always try and remind people is that doctors are not gods. no one is going to know exactly what’s going on inside of you. make sure you’re educated about your own health (by doing things like picking up that cunty book tank suggested!!!) yes, female doctors have the same parts. they may be able to understand better, and they are more likely to treat you better. but i just want women to be careful with their decisions. i think it’s great for a woman to go to a woman doctor, and a latina to go to a latina doctor, etc, etc, etc…but she should just be careful about any assumptions she’s making. irregardless of the gender of the doctor, americanized medicine is still an old boys’ club. it is taught and practiced that way. only a select few (both women and men) choose to go against the grain.
ps tankie i used the urologist example bc in most of my experience, the people who go to them are men. but that’s just what i’ve seen. and if i wanted to go into urology i would catch HELL. i don’t want anyone telling me i can’t take care of dicks because i don’t have one. if i were to become a dick doctor, i’d be the best damn dick doctor in the universe. and it’d be up to my patients to decide if i was sub par just because i was a woman.
i guess the issue for me is that a lot of women don’t realize that they can choose not to see a male cunt doc if he’s not working out. or they don’t exercise this choice.
June 28th, 2002 at 6:12 pm
i just emailed you!!! and i totally agree with you in the sense of the whole field of medicine is structured by men. that’s kind of my point. going to a woman doctor recommended by the FWHC is a much better idea that going to a woman doctor because she is a woman.
and it is interesting that you, as a woman, would catch hell for going into urology, but men don’t catch hell for going into cunt doctoring…
June 28th, 2002 at 7:00 pm
i really have to say thanks for the FWHC link from tank, and thanks for all of the information you both are providing on these feminine issues.
i also agree that the informed decision shouldn’t come JUST from the woman being a female doctor, she must have some credibility as a person and a physician as well. (i.e. orgs like FWHC)
February 18th, 2003 at 4:02 am
This may not be about gynecologists as much, but it’s funny how women do all of these birthcontrol methods while there men don’t have to take on the responsibility. When it comes to birth control, men don’t care if there women go on the pill and face the horrible side effects (not just weight gain, but chances of certain female cancers, depression, and nausia), but when the females suggust that there men go on the newly invented male oral contraceptive, they don’t want to hear it. There aren’t that reversable birth control methods for men out there, but with women you can poke, swallow, and cramp as many options as you’d like.