kWUEEN sHADEZ

Your hotep cousin from Facebook also thinks periods are a sin crafted by white devils. Lmao

9:53 PM - 14 Mar 2016

Yada’s comments were mocked by many, but also revealed a scary fact — there are many men who think like him.

This ignorance is on par with a national trend of men speaking authoritatively on women’s health without a working knowledge of women’s bodies. And these statements are particularly dangerous because they weaponize a normal and necessary biological function to become evidence of the ‘unhealthiness’ and ‘uncleanness’ of black women.

Numerous studies have shown that medical research ignores women, and schools generally do a poor job of teaching students about the intricacies of women’s biology.