#women's bodies

[nansheonearth]

[Image description: Two smartphone screenshots of a Facebook post by a person named Sheila Toll posted 2 Sep. It is black text on a white background and the post is public. The post reads:

I am a Family Doctor and I want to keep a promise made to a patient. 

Julie was a healthy, post-menopausal woman in my care who came in for a periodic health examination. One of my routine questions, in what is called the “Review of Systems”, was to ask if she had experienced any vaginal bleeding. 

She said “No” but then laughed and added, “Other than when my period came back for a few months last year”. 

All health care professional are taught early on that ‘vaginal bleeding in a post-menopausal woman is Cancer of the Uterus until proven otherwise’. This comment by Julie was, therefore, a red flag (no pun intended) prompting further questions, an examination and an ultrasound of her pelvis. 

Julie was surprised to see me so concerned, especially since the symptoms had not recurred over many months. 

Sure enough, a pelvic ultrasound and tissue sampling confirmed Cancer of the Uterus. 

Julie underwent a hysterectomy and radiation therapy. She is now healthy, cancer-free and is expected to stay that way. 

After all this was done, Julie sat ME down for a talk. She told me she’d had no idea a ‘short return’ of her period after menopause was a danger signal. Furthermore, she addressed the topic with friends over coffee and discovered that, out of 20 women, NONE of them knew this symptom was abnormal! She admonished me to “Tell women this! Don’t assume we know it!”

From that day on, I have kept Julie’s advice in mind when talking with post-menopausal patients. But recently my wife suggested that I should take this to a wider audience. 

So, Julie, this is for you:

If you are a post-menopausal woman and your period ‘comes back’ or you have even one episode of vaginal bleeding, TELL A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL and insist on having it investigated! 

Wishing you all good health and long lives. End image description.]

#radfem #healthcare #women's bodies #cancer #menstruation #menopause #o

[newyorkthegoldenage]

In April of 1929, the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Greenwich Village was raided by police. They arrested five staff members, confiscated medical records, and tried to bully patients into giving them their names and addresses.

Their tactics backfired. The Bureau and its clinic in Brooklyn received an enormous amount of publicity, and many doctors protested the violation of doctor-patient confidentiality. When the case came to court on April 19, 1929, the judge ruled that the police had exceeded the scope of the search warrant he had issued, and the case was dropped.

Above, Sanger (third from left) and the five arrested staff members after their victory: A.L. Field, Dr. Elizabeth Pissiot, Sanger, Dr. Hanna M. Stone, and Mrs. Marcella Sideri.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

#vintage New York #1920s #Margaret Sanger #birth control #clinic raid #women's rights #birth control clinic #police raid #April 19 #19 April #women's bodies #old New York City

[turns-out-its-adhd]

If "8 in 10" experience it early.... is that not the more usual time to expect it?

Is that how statistics work?

#women's health #menopause #skinner memes #out of touch #healthcare #hormones #getting older #women's bodies #menstruation #btw menopause makes adhd symptoms worse

[limeade-l3sbian]

<3

#body positivity #body hair #women's bodies #body art

[g-a-r-f-i-l-e-d]

So radfems have spoken about it before and I only really realised it after being more a part of the community how there isn't a word for period... "stuff" like how it's all just called blood when it's actually blood, uterine lining, plasma, organ bits etc. And the frustration regarding how women and out bodies aren't given language often times. I decided to just start making a word for period blood that was more accurate to the actual substance to at least start. At the very least if we make and start using words we can obviously get then to light as has been done many times in the past.

The word I came up with is "hysterousia" from the ancient greek words for womb and su stance/essence. Pretty simply to start and idk how I feel about hystera being used what with the connotations of hysteria. But it is a start. If anyone sees this and wants to throw in a suggestion for this specific term of menstrual substance or suggest other terms be made for other aspects of the female body or experience then please add on!

#radfem #radblr #periods #menstruation #medical misogyny #biology #women's bodies #radical feminism #radfems please interact #radfem safe

[nemfrog]

Women’s bodies. Ars pictoria: or An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, etching. 1675.

Internet Archive

#art school #armless #women's bodies #female nude #collection #nemfrog #1675 #17th century

[emperornorton47]

#second amendment #Women's bodies #Choice #freedom #birth control

[estellaestella]

Thanks to the Me Too movement the world has some better boundaries than in 2006 😬 (The male reporter actually says 'I touched Scarlet's boob' in a sing-song way in the clip.)

#scarlet johansson #me too #20th january 2018 #The anniversary of the me too march came and left and i didnt see any posts to acknowledge it at all #isaac mizrahi #Women's bodies #Women's rights

[ioncewished]

The gaslighting men do to women is insane. Men enter warp speed to swarm underneath women's sports posts to comment hatred and tell women how awful they are. Women are like "wtf why are you here." Then men get pissed off at women for not "admitting" men are better and not... praising men underneath a women's sports post?? You're not allowed to enjoy sports as a woman. Your entire existence has to be about praising random male athletes over nothing and shitting on female athletes, and THEN you are allowed to still enjoy female athletes as long as you remember to mention she is "inferior."

Men are so insecure about sports it's unreal. Men's inferiority complex is out of this world. They're threatened by women's sports merely existing and people enjoying them. They are so frantic trying to prove how great male muscles are when most people's association with men's strength is just their bruality, their evil, their crime rate, and how people live in fear of them because of their combination of physical ability and mental desire to hurt people.

Women's bodies are so objectively better men can't handle it. Even "strengths" men have are just traits bred from violence, and actually unhealthy and sad for men (testosterone shortens your lifespan for example). Even though women have never relentlessly mocked men every single day for how weak and lame men's bodies are, men still spew anger and sadism at us and do anything to make us feel bad. We're literally so gracious and kind to men and we love them and celebrate them no matter what. We understand they were just born that way and it's cool. Men have no reason to be this jealous and bitter, but they are.

#radical feminism #radfem #women #male violence #feminism #woso #soccer #football #sports #women's sports #women's soccer #women's football #women's bodies #man moment #misogyny #misandry #radblr #radical feminist community #radical feminists do touch #radical feminists do interact #radical feminist safe #feminist

[lesbiansandco]

trying on clothes (as an afab)

Maybe this is just some internal shit but there's a pattern I've noticed when it comes to trying on clothes

I'd say 95% of the time when I've tried on clothes and they don't fit, it's because the piece is too small

And even though I'm getting bigger and growing out of some of my old clothes, when I'm looking at clothes in a store or thrift shop I always start looking at the smaller clothes even though I KNOW they won't fit me unless they're stretchy (mostly happens with tops, but I've tried to squeeze into so. many. small jeans)

I'm not insecure about my body and its size at all and I never really have been, but I'm wondering if there's something ingrained in me from years of influences and biases on women's bodies that make me go for smaller clothes first even though they're not likely to fit

Does anyone else feel this way or have thoughts on this?

#feminism #trying on clothes #clothes #clothing #women's fashion #women's bodies #afab problems #also men's jeans are the best HANDS DOWN

[nansheonearth]

#boston #massachusetts #new england #ivf #pregnancy #rape culture #patriarchy #medical abuse #abuse #women's bodies #sarah depoian #merle berger #boston ivf #radfem #o

[hjellacott]

Why sometimes it is important to have FEMALE gynaecologists

When we talk about wanting female gynaecologists or obstetricians, we often talk about hypothetic things, so I thought I'd share my real, recent experience. I'm a grown up adult and yet I'd never gone to the gynaecologist before until recently. It all started last year, when my periods got odd. I won't go into details, but you know when your instinct urges you to get checked because you know in your gut that something is off? And you know it sounds insane if you say it out loud, and people don't believe you, but you know. So I contacted a GP, managed to convince him to take me seriously, and I got a referral for a gynaecologist. A year later, I was finally called for my appointment.

When I got my paper with my appointment, I was surprised to learn that the examination I was booked for was far more and more invasive / intense than I had thought it would be, so I got very anxious, because I've heard from friends who had terrible experiences at the gyn and I was worried sick. Will it hurt? Will they be too harsh? Will I bleed? Will I be really uncomfortable? Then I had worse concerns: will I have a dishonourable doctor/nurse who takes advantage of me? So I decided the best way to ease my concerns was to ensure that no males were in the room. A woman wouldn't rape me, a woman wouldn't touch me without knowledge of what it feels like, a woman would be able to be empathetic with me, put herself in my shoes, and try and help me. A woman wouldn't get turned on. A woman will also have had, at some point, her first intense examination and will understand my worries and anxiety. Men? They'll lack empathy, they'll be too brusque, they might sexually abuse me, they might hurt me simply because they don't know how delicate you need to be, or mansplain, or discard my concerns, or all of the above.

It was important for my doctor to be a woman.

Unfortunately, we live in the day and age where if you call your doctor, hospital or surgery in the NHS to try and ensure your doctor is a woman, sometimes you'll be met with the wrong person who will think you're transphobic and be really rude and disrespectful and refuse to help. It took me 2 days on the phone, calling a variety of hospitals, hospital departments and NHS numbers, until I was able to find a sweet lady who was happy to ensure my doctor was female and to my surprise, she didn't even ask me to explain why it was important to me.

In the end, my appointment went just fine. I had a young, understanding, caring, gentle and lovely female doctor who was also POC, so she actually gave me a lot of insight. I arrived saying "I'm so sorry but I've never done this before and i'm so anxious" and the whole time she was listening to me, comforting me, calming me, explaining me exactly what she was doing bit by bit, being patient, empathetic... She actually told me I'd done well coming and gotten checked and explained how important it was, even if it didn't seem like a big deal or even if I wasn't sexually active at the time. Unfortunately I was right and the doctor found evidence of a more serious health problem, so I'll be getting more tests and things, but I was so happy with the doctor I got. When she told me what I might have, which is something that runs in my family, I told her I didn't know anything about that problem, so she sat and patiently and kindly told me all she knew about it, explained it's a problem many women live with and that in ethnicities such as hers or mine, it could be even more common, but she gave me the magical line "us women have had to deal with things like this since always and we always pull through, so don't worry, there's a lot we can do" and I left not feeling worried at all, rather, empowered, calmer and confident.

So don't fucking undermine the importance of being able to choose exactly the doctor you want.

#women #men #transgender #female doctors #male doctors #doctors #nhs #medicine #gynaecology #obstetrics #ob/gyn #women's health #women's reproductive health #women's bodies #female health #female genitalia #female bodies #real experience #first time at the gynaecologist

[claar-bookdragonwitch]

#feminism #women #women's bodies

[septembergold]

Don't reject the headscarves. Reject the entitlement and the servitude that comes with it. We are human beings, not slaves.

#tradition #humanity #women's bodies

[sick-sad-world-revolution-now]

This is so fucking impressive.

#mine #videos #sport #women #women's bodies #amazing #Youtube

[nomorerww]

It always feels super skeevy when men talk about being attracted to very buff women because it's not an unpopular fetish. men will literally fetishize anything. I also wish the women in the video were wearing clothes that covered up their bodies instead of crop tops and bicycle shorts.

#women's bodies #crossfit