The fact that it took a bunch of teenage boys to decide to do something about a predatory adult.
And they knew not to put the girl's face out there...
The kids are alright
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In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix.
What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses.
The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there.
The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body.
PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%.
A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.
“All men, including you?”
Yes, including me and you. My awareness will never equal the lived reality of what women endure at the hands of men daily. Any woman has every right to be cautious around me because I still exist within a system that excuses, protects, and enables MEN.
We have spent years being told it is “just a period problem” while our skin, our weight, our mood, and our energy were all falling apart. Today, the medical world finally admitted you were right.
PCOS is now PMOS.
Day 13 of demanding justice for Ochanya.
It's been over 7 years since 13-year-old Elizabeth Ochanya Ogbanje died from complications of years of horrific sexual abuse. Yet one of the main suspects, Victor Ogbuja, remains at large, and the Benue State Police Command has stayed largely silent.
Why is there still no official statement?
Why no sustained manhunt or wanted posters for the fugitive?
Why does it feel like this case is being allowed to fade away again?
The family and the people of Benue deserve better. We will not let Ochanya’s death be swept under the carpet.
Everyone, please tag and call on the authorities to act now:
@benuestategovt@BenuePoliceNG@PoliceNG
Tag Benue State government officials, your representatives, and anyone who can help put pressure on them.
Let’s keep the pressure on until real action is taken. Justice delayed is justice denied.
Rest in peace, Ochanya 💔🙏
#JusticeForOchanya
#JusticeForOchanya
#JusticeForOchanya
#JusticeForTheGirlChild
Also:
A child cannot consent.
A drunk person cannot consent.
Marriage doesn't equal consent. Coercing or forcing your wife to have sex is rape.
Deceiving another person in order to have sex with them is rape.
ISRAEL IS GOING TO MURDER THESE INNOCENT KIDS FOR NOTHING. YOUR SILENT IS LETTING IT HAPPEN. SPEAK UPPPP FFS THEY'RE JS KIDS WTF THEY DID TO DESERVE THIS
i beg you all. while it's important to talk about Palestine and Iran, please don't ignore what's happening in SUDAN. SUDAN barely has any media coverage, we need to talk about it more
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Actually they did not plan to flog him to death. They allegedly have a rule to flog any rapist 120 strokes of cane before handing them over to the authorities.
This man died after 40 strokes because not only is he a pedo and rapist, he’s also a weak disgusting scum who can’t handle more than 40 strokes of cane.
He is capable of raping a child, subjecting her to pain and torture but cannot handle more than 40 strokes of cane. 🤮