so-soAnother unpopular opinion tonight.
The information about periods and how they‘re not at all what we‘ve all been lead to believe is great. I wish someone like this were in charge of teaching girls about their bodies instead of religious nuts.
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GingerAntics On the other hand, it‘s been proven time and again that dieting harms hormones (especially in woman of childbearing age) and BMI has been so badly debunked, I have no idea why anyone is still using it. Neither of these is good advice. Also, this book seems to do some diet shaming. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y
GingerAntics “Yeah it‘s hard to lose weight, but if you choose to think of it as nurturing your body, it will be fine.” The underlying message being, if you‘re hungry or having cravings, it‘s your fault; if you don‘t lose weight, it‘s your fault. This is where she lost me. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (edited) 3y
GingerAntics I find it interesting that so many women call diet culture “empowering.” It‘s like diet culture hijacked words to make people, especially women, buy in more. Oh wait, they did. #ToniWeschler #TakingChargeOfYourFertility #heregoesnothing #UnpopularOpinion 3y
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Traci1 This reminds me of when I was in my twenties. My oldest was about 2, and I had been having a period that had lasted 6 months...not kidding. I ended up in the er one day because it got so bad I couldn't feel my fingers and toes. I was carrying a towel around the house so I didn't ruin the furniture. My regular ob said he could prescribe birth control to stop it but we wanted another baby. He said he "could" help me but wouldn't because it would ⬇️ 3y
Traci1 Be unethical to help a woman who was 25 pounds overweight get pregnant. Just like he wouldn't help someone who admitted to smoking. I mean you can lie about that, but there's no lying about the extra 25 pounds you gained from the first baby. I switched docs. Today I'd have stood up for myself and told that MALE doctor where he could shove his birth control. But in my 20s it devastated me and left me feeling worthless. 3y
GingerAntics @Traci1 WHAT?! 🤬 That is SO wrong!!! It would be “unethical”? I call BS. Women way more “overweight” than 25 pounds get pregnant and deliver perfectly healthy babies every bloody day. What. An. 🤬 I am so sorry you had to go through that. This is why so many women just don‘t seek medical treatment. You‘re fat so I can‘t stop you from bleeding out? FFS 🙄🤬 If someone smokes and wants to get pregnant, you help them quit first you lazy jerk. 3y
Traci1 @GingerAntics women have such a long history of being discounted when it comes to their own health. It's unfortunate that in this day and age we still haven't progressed to the point where we are treated equally when it comes to medical decisions. Heaven forbid a man can't get an erection, but if a woman has a valid medical need, she's often written off as anxious or overemotional. Or just fat. 🙄 3y
GingerAntics @Traci1 right? 🙄 It‘s so ridiculous. It seems for every medical professional attempting to change things and treat women as people, there is someone kicking their chauvinism up a notch. 🤦🏼♀️ Sadly, some of the worst perpetrators I‘ve known, were female doctors. I don‘t get it. 3y
GingerAntics @Traci1 sometimes I think it would be better if we went back to the women take care of the women and the men take care of the men model, just with modern medical science of course. Men stepped into childbirth and women‘s health and suddenly all these illnesses women were well aware of and knew what to do about were just those crazy hysterical women. The men had never heard of these things before, so they much be mental. 🙄 3y
GingerAntics @Traci1 I swear we‘ve lost so much knowledge and wisdom about female health because men took over and didn‘t believe women knew anything. They prevented women from helping other women at all, turned them against each other, refused to even ask the experts on childbirth about it. 🙄 Ugh. I swear. 3y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Sounds like it isn't fully revised or updated enough. So many male doctors out there I'd like to punch in the dick for mistreating women and thinking they don't know their own body. For the women, an extra special treat of punting them. 3y
GingerAntics @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick right? Then every now and again you find a male doctor that is the complete opposite of that. It‘s mind numbing. This book was revised in 2015, and its still full of weight stigma. It‘s disgusting. I just really hope her book for teen girls doesn‘t have anything about weight in it. 3y
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