An imperforate hymen (the first one) actually requires a minor medical procedure because menstrual blood can’t escape. Posts like this are actually useful for raising awareness about reproductive health
This Girl said,,
Last night my husband says, “So today everyone at work was telling me I need to try for a boy.”
I stop in my tracks.
“Who?”
He says two men’s names.
“So. Two MEN. Told YOU. That YOU. Need to try for a boy?”
Besties. I had surgery right after Roe v Wade was overturned, knowing I couldn’t survive another pregnancy. I can no longer physically get pregnant. And I am 37. And my child is about to enter high school.
“I told them that even if I wanted to, you wouldn’t want to.”
And I said: “Next time, feminism requires that you reply, ‘So you, MEN, think you can tell MY WIFE that she needs to get pregnant?’ you need to be so very clear that everyone is so embarrassed by saying that, that they won’t ever say it to anyone else again.”
How does it feel to be a woman and see that nothing changes, that we're always the ones who get punished, and that men can do and say the most horrible things in the world and NOTHING happens https://t.co/fuoZO9OZhj
Maternity leave shouldn’t have stipulations, if you had to deliver your baby at 22 weeks and the baby didn’t survive and your work tells you that you get 5 days bereavement but not your leave because you dont have a baby…. I have some choice words for them. You did have a baby. You gave birth. Your body is still healing, you are bleeding, your hormones are reeling from loss and birth, you’re lactating. YOU GAVE BIRTH. We really need to do better for women. Period.
It wasn’t until 1998 that the American Academy of Pediatrics began instructing doctors to assume that a child who was infected with an STD had been sexually assaulted.
This came after more than half a century of lies about infectious toilet seats, lies told to cover up both the reason why a post-war study of STD infection rates found that 10% of infections were seen in girls below the age of 13 — that is, that girls were getting raped — and the fact that rates of infection were highest in upper middle class white families.
Once that data came in, researchers claimed — with absolutely zero evidence, and not a single case — that girls were catching STDs from toilet seats, even though this method of transmission had already been ruled out for women and boys. Girls, researchers decided (again with zero evidence) were especially vulnerable to infection from toilet seats because the walls of their vaginas were so thin that it made infection more likely.
Just like that, the next fifty years’ worth of infected victims could be waved away as having caught an STD in prepubescence due to an infectious toilet seat.
1998.
Sometimes this world just makes me sick.
Pressuring a girl for sex until she gives in is rapey.. touching a girl without her permission is rapey.. lying about your feelings in order to gain sex is rapey.. emotional manipulation to gain sex is also rapey.. and if you do any of these you’re part of the problem