being a female medical student is just so tiring. oh, you want to study anatomy on a female model in the year 2025? good luck lol. 99.9% of pictures in an anatomy atlas are of a male. learning about the layers of the thoracic wall? male, and breasts are just an add on. every single distinct feature of the female body is just treated as a quirk from the default male body. general dosages of drugs or healthy percentages of compounds in blood? written about male bodies, if you are lucky data about women is given in parentheses. there is literally a sentence in one of my books that hymen is perforated during the first sexual activity, which was proven to be a dangerous myth many years ago, but I guess nobody cares to correct it. almost every picture we use for learning is of a male patient, and when we do get a picture of a woman, it feels like you are blessed by the gods. illustrations of female bodies? clean shaven, if you're lucky maybe you will get a millimeter of a bush. professors saying "rape is natural", "you, the female students should get married before the end of college, otherwise it will be too late", "it is in men's nature to be with as many women as possible", "having children after 30 as a woman is unethical", and nobody even does anything because everyone is just so desentisized from all the stress and being treated like emotionless robots by the system. I'm convinced medical schools are a breeding ground for sociopaths and misogynists.
no wonder women have such terrible experiences with healthcare. we are treated like a special subtype of a human. I mean it's not like we make half of the population right?
idk, I am just so tired of it all, it genuinely makes me so sad...I just hope in other countries it's a bit better, I keep telling myself maybe it's because I study in Eastern Europe
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something that drives me up the fucking wall is when someone sees something you’ve/someone else has trained years to get good at (a craft, a skill, academics, a sport, some physical or mental feat, etc) and say “oh, that person is just naturally good a that, I could never do that so I shouldn’t even try”
your mind and body are both far more elastic and changeable and adaptable than you could ever dream. it just takes time and practice.
EDIT: THIS IS A CARRD NOW! it's updated and organized!!
EDIT EDIT: this is on my website now! this is the version that will be somewhat regularly updated. the carrd will remain, but will no longer be updated.
use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
use firefox or librewolf (open-source fork of firefox) instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
use mega instead of google drive
get rid of bloatware
use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
get free stuff with the help of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH, r/piracy and r/roms
use trakt (for shows and movies), letterboxd (just movies), or TMB instead of IMDB (owned by amazon).
use storygraph instead of goodreads (owned by amazon).
use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
use search for a cause, ecosia, or ocean hero to support the environment instead of google
use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
burn your music onto cds
use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, or tuta instead of gmail
remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
remove bloatware on samsung X
use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
use project gutenberg for free public domain books, and librivox for public domain books and audiobooks
use the seal app (android only) to download video and audio
use ellipsus instead of microsoft word or google docs
use mastodon instead of twitter
use peertube to create a network of small video hosting providers (disclaimer: not a 1:1 alternative to youtube)
use threema and signal for encrypted communication, on mobile and desktop
use qwant and startpage for secure internet browsers
use syncthing to securely transfer files between devices
learn how to jailbreak your kindle/ereader if you have one (wiki and video walkthrough)
use riseup’s email and VPN for secure communication (aimed towards activists)
use cryptpad and collabora instead of the microsoft office suite
use google takeout to export the data on your google account
use library extension to look for books on online stores and find them at your library
remove paywalls with removepaywalls
install the open-source adblocker ublock origin
install sponsorblock to skip sponsored segments on youtube videos
use bookfinder to look for the cheapest available listings of books, including textbooks
learn a language through mango (duolingo laid off some of its employees and now relies on AI translations) for free with a library card or through your school
edit photos with photopea
edit pdfs with foxit and sumatrapdf
download music with doubledouble
take notes offline and collaborate securely with obsidian
for android tv, use smarttube and cloudstream (ad-free, open-source)
change your OS to linux
changelog:
removed ground news (uses AI to summarize articles)
removed unroll.me (sells your data)
removed proton mail and drive (AI assistant feature, claims of CEO Andy Yen supporting Trump, please DM if you have proof I can add here)
removed NCH suite (only has very basic free features, puts watermark on anything saved)
notes:
this post blew up while I wasn’t looking (the end of my semester was hellish, and i recently came back from a 3-week family vacation). thanks so much for all the suggestions! <3
i included Ecosia because of their financial transparency. It’s physically impossible that they plant a tree for every search, but their profits still go towards projects including reforestation and solar energy. i view their actions as a net-positive
feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3
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Today I had to be at work at 6 am. When I arrived at my bus stop, this beautiful sunrise landing on the meadow delighted my eyes. Sometimes I really want to live a little longer.
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what is some advice you think everyone should hear?
To literally stop caring about what other people think about you!!!! The fear of being perceived as undignified will ironically always be the thing to hold you back from new opportunities. You’ll miss out on far more by worrying about judgment than you’ll ever lose from actually being judged.
