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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 20 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.)

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not so antiquated if you look into pain management and other areas in which doctors are dismissive of symptoms.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 7 points 21 hours ago

"Oh, you have an autoimmune disorder? Probably in your head."

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Or as Red of Overly Sarcastic Productions likes to call it, ‘Being a Woman Disease’.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

It sounds like a great name for an all women stand up comedy show.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As opposed to the perpetually ignored Male Hysteria ..... which often leads to side effects including world war, genocide, mass poverty and government authoritarianism

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

seems simple enough to solve, just need to come up with the male equivalent of this:

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

We could just aim it at the butt or something?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Apoligies, but I can't understand what you are saying unless its presented in the form of a 19th-century lithograph.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

And they say male intimacy is dead

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

ironically that's for reviving drowning victims

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 19 hours ago

only if you suck when you're supposed to blow

Finally, I knew my collection of 19th-century but stuff lithographs would be useful one day!

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

honestly, we should bring back wank clinics, would help with nerves.

[–] Cawifre@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

I was going to say, its not like truck stops stopped existing..