‘It suggests that we have a high cultural tolerance for women’s suffering. It’s not regarded as important.’
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The story we receive is that women endure the pain & inconvenience of menstrual periods for years, but it will end at menopause.
So, women enduring discomfort is established as the norm in our teens, &, other than hot flashes, menopause is presented as an escape from it.
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It’s not just “not important,” it seems to be intentional, as though deserved bc the lady in the book took a bite of an apple. I mean, a sadist tortured female slaves with gynological experiments to become “the father of gynecology.” We’re beyond “suggestion” here.
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Of course women's suffering is discounted. In this scaldingly Christian country it is Eve's punishment