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[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis for women. It was described as exhibiting a wide array of symptoms, including anxiety, shortness of breath, fainting, nervousness, exaggerated and impulsive sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, sexually impulsive behavior, and a "tendency to cause trouble for others".[1]

So basically anything the man deems abnormal. Being a woman in the past sounds shitty.

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not really so much better now, tbh..

Everything is still blamed on hormones and periods and stuff, or just dismissed.

And a lot of things aren’t even studied in women, including many medications, because the hormonal cycle is “disruptive to the research” even though half the population experiences it, and men have their own hormone cycles.

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I know so little about male hormone cycles even though I am a male. I feel like this should have been taught to me at some point but of course it hasn't.

The information agebis stupid, all its really taught me is that I don't know shit, and that it isn't my fault because the bastards in power keep pushing dumbass misogyny, racism and bigotry.

You think we can reroll our spawn realm?

(Edit: I have no idea what agebis stupid means, I wrote this comment on my phone and well, no clue. Soz.)