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"Yes, Stella - your father's just an ordinary man. And his daughter? She's an ordinary woman. But there's one thing ordinary people can do just as well as anybody: They can love each other like - like millionaires or poets. That's why it's not such a terrible thing to be an ordinary person, Stella."

Susan Sontag

The evidence that women are being let down by the medical establishment is overwhelming. The bodies, symptoms and diseases that affect half the world’s population are being dismissed, disbelieved and ignored. And it’s all a result of the data gap combined with the still prevalent belief, in the face of all the evidence that we do have, that men are the default humans. They are not. They are, to state the obvious, just men. And data collected on them does not, cannot, and should not, apply to women. We need a revolution in the research and the practice of medicine, and we need it yesterday. We need to train doctors to listen to women, and to recognise that their inability to diagnose a woman may not be because she is lying or being hysterical: the problem may be the gender data gaps in their knowledge. It’s time to stop dismissing women, and start saving them.

Caroline Criado-Perez

- In my dream, you said you’d… you figured out where we met. - I went back and I found it. I recalled you and I working together in Paris. We were members of the Pigeon Post. During a four and a half month siege of the city by Prussian forces. We worked and rigged balloons that delivered mail and secret messages across the communications blockade, set up by the Prussians. We sent 65 unguided mail balloons and only two went missing. In the worst winter on record. Two.

This is also seen in the trans community. People look up to trans women, listen to what they say, and think about them before the opinions and presence of female trans people, because they are male. The ranting and condemnations of trans women are taken far more seriously than a trans man's, and trans men use them to legitimize their own gender feelings, because they are still subconsciously searching for the opinions of a male to validate them.

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meanwhile judges in late 1800s America were stating “[NOW, as per this NEW law] the wife is not to be considered as the husband’s slave” (Fulgham v State (1871) and TODAY governments are using the terms “slave” and “master” in several sections of law regarding wives and their husbands (Afghanistan). Child (and older) brides are owned by their fathers and sold into the possession of other men. in some places, it’s still legal to murder women you “own”.

These women are owned and sold as property and are expected to do unpaid, life-long labour for their “owners”. this labour is 24/7, being pregnant, looking after children, cooking, cleaning, mental load etc etc. one part of that “labour” is pretending to love their “owners”. That doesn’t mean it’s not slavery. Sometimes their “owners” will treat her like a dog and give her treats and toys and let her sleep on the bed. Sometimes their “owners” will be affectionate towards her.

that doesn’t mean it’s not still buying and selling a human being for the purposes of forced, unpaid life-long labour. The men making these laws will call it what it is meanwhile we shy away from the term. Marriage is the social construct which provides all men can have a maid slave. maids are paid.

before anyone goes crazy

@friendlyfreakazoid fantastic addition