If you punish people for saying — correctly — that only women have a cervix, and therefore, to avoid further beatings in the press and online, refuse to say that women should get screened for cervical cancer, then you are failing to inform women of medical advice specifically pertinent to women. When you don’t tell women that your message is for them, then of course they don’t hear your message. Naturally, screening rates fall. What did you expect? I guess it’s perfectly fine not to speak to women about women-specific medical advice if you don’t care whether women suffer and die. Mission accomplished, patriarchy minions. Job well done.
I wonder if “India” Willoughby has gone in for his screening yet? I’m told he has a cervix.
Quite likely, too. But it’s probably made of plastic, and hanging on a chain round his neck, or tucked inside his underpants; for the sake of ‘authenticity.’
One thing I learned teaching biology is that a shocking number of people do not know which sex has the cervix…or the uterus…and these were pre-med students. I imagine if they are not learning it in their classes, then probably non-majors are learning even less about it. Of course, this was in Texas, where the government is afraid someone, anyone, in the high schools will teach some kid about how sex works, and they will immediately go out and do it.
I don’t know if they knew in Nebraska; I wasn’t teaching the same sort of biology class. I was teaching non-majors, and we just covered the systems quickly and moved on. Learning human anatomy wasn’t even listed on the curriculum, but we all covered it anyway.
Well, duh.
If you punish people for saying — correctly — that only women have a cervix, and therefore, to avoid further beatings in the press and online, refuse to say that women should get screened for cervical cancer, then you are failing to inform women of medical advice specifically pertinent to women. When you don’t tell women that your message is for them, then of course they don’t hear your message. Naturally, screening rates fall. What did you expect? I guess it’s perfectly fine not to speak to women about women-specific medical advice if you don’t care whether women suffer and die. Mission accomplished, patriarchy minions. Job well done.
Yeah, it’s only CANCER, and only women.
I wonder if “India” Willoughby has gone in for his screening yet? I’m told he has a cervix.
YNnB:
Quite likely, too. But it’s probably made of plastic, and hanging on a chain round his neck, or tucked inside his underpants; for the sake of ‘authenticity.’
One thing I learned teaching biology is that a shocking number of people do not know which sex has the cervix…or the uterus…and these were pre-med students. I imagine if they are not learning it in their classes, then probably non-majors are learning even less about it. Of course, this was in Texas, where the government is afraid someone, anyone, in the high schools will teach some kid about how sex works, and they will immediately go out and do it.
I don’t know if they knew in Nebraska; I wasn’t teaching the same sort of biology class. I was teaching non-majors, and we just covered the systems quickly and moved on. Learning human anatomy wasn’t even listed on the curriculum, but we all covered it anyway.
What, as a matter of interest, do trans-men say about this sort of thing? Or don’t they speak up?