Women indeed suffer more humiliation at the hands of doctors, but this humiliation doesn’t serve any medical purpose, other than feeding the doctor’s ego and increase his sense of control over women. So what are we nagging about? If women want a PAP test for instance, there’s no need to have it done the barbaric way and never has been. Women simply have to refuse this and demand to be treated with respect, just like men do. Women should not allow to be intimidated with scary stories about their reproductive organs either. Our bodies aren’t more defective than men’s.

Sounds exciting.

It’s because, even today, men are led to believe that they are in complete control of their bodies and their futures, and any reminder that their body could suddenly go “kablooey!â€Â? on them is incredibly threatening.”

Based on my observations of the chest-beating white heterosexual male “powerclass” while living here in NYC, Mnemosyne has nailed it, I think.

Seriously though, why does it seem like so many men who seriously dislike women go into a field of study that specifically treats women? One of my girlfriend’s first gynecologists was obsessed with the state of her hymen and tried to pressure her into letting him perform a “hymenectomy”. That’s some seriously fucked up shit. There should really be a psychological test as part of getting your medical degree.

–The Patriarchy.

I recently had to have a freaking ultrasound scan of my ovaries done. And it wasn’t done by the same method they use when you’re pregnant (ie rolling the thingie over the relevant part of your abdomen). Oh no, it was INTERNAL.

My girlfriend participated in a woman’s thesis study that measured uterine thickness and various hormone levels. At the end of the experiment they took ultrasound pictures using the internal probe. Maybe this woman had access to more comfortable equipment, but it didn’t look that big.