Sounds like you’re assuming an awful lot on behalf of women in general and ignoring our experiences. Doctors do absolutely have to ask certain questions for diagnostic and treatment purposes, but they also do ignore our perspectives and tend to misdiagnose or misattribute our problems. Every woman has a story or knows someone that has been “diagnosed with woman,” or mistreated by the medical system. Take two minutes of googling and you’ll find countless studies. Look up the slang “WWW” (whiny white woman), or other regional variants. The “female hysteria” stereotype is still very much real. More than once in my life I’ve handed the phone to a man who restated the EXACT same words I said, and was only then taken seriously. I’ve had a doctor suggest that my symptoms are likely PMS, despite the fact that I have no uterus and have never had a period, and didn’t even believe me after I told him as much until he checked and double checked my chart, as if I would lie about something so easily disproven!
Medical misogyny is real, and the purpose of the comic is to point out the priority of the system to view us first as reproductive vessels, and the tendency to ignore our perspectives specifically because of our gender. If the very first question a doctor asked after “I HAVE AN OPEN GUNSHOT WOUND IN MY ARM” was “When was your last period,” instead of immediate triage and first aid, it would be ridiculous. Even in this incredibly pedantic view of the comic, taking everything directly literally instead of comprehending the obvious point it’s making, it still doesn’t make sense.
Sounds like you’re assuming an awful lot on behalf of women in general and ignoring our experiences. Doctors do absolutely have to ask certain questions for diagnostic and treatment purposes, but they also do ignore our perspectives and tend to misdiagnose or misattribute our problems. Every woman has a story or knows someone that has been “diagnosed with woman,” or mistreated by the medical system. Take two minutes of googling and you’ll find countless studies. Look up the slang “WWW” (whiny white woman), or other regional variants. The “female hysteria” stereotype is still very much real. More than once in my life I’ve handed the phone to a man who restated the EXACT same words I said, and was only then taken seriously. I’ve had a doctor suggest that my symptoms are likely PMS, despite the fact that I have no uterus and have never had a period, and didn’t even believe me after I told him as much until he checked and double checked my chart, as if I would lie about something so easily disproven!
Medical misogyny is real, and the purpose of the comic is to point out the priority of the system to view us first as reproductive vessels, and the tendency to ignore our perspectives specifically because of our gender. If the very first question a doctor asked after “I HAVE AN OPEN GUNSHOT WOUND IN MY ARM” was “When was your last period,” instead of immediate triage and first aid, it would be ridiculous. Even in this incredibly pedantic view of the comic, taking everything directly literally instead of comprehending the obvious point it’s making, it still doesn’t make sense.