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The means ARE the ends

Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Invading female bodies

As a female, I've been the subject of gynecological examinations for a long, long time. They are humiliating, degrading, uncomfortable, and cold. Men can NEVER understand what it's like to have your body invaded in such an intimate yet impersonal way. Because a male's genitals are on the exterior, there's no need for a doctor to shove a metal appendage into the opening of the penis, spread it, probe around inside, and then use a set of metal teeth or a metal scraper to take a tissue sample. That shit hurts.

Also, apparently, men's internal reproductive organs are not nearly as in need of inspection as women's. Is that because there is a convenient opening into a woman through which her reproductive organs can be viewed? Are men 'off the hook' because it's too inconvenient, painful, etc. to view anything that's not on blatent display? Yes, men go through the 'finger up the ass' check for hernias and such but who gives a fuck? Women have been having various implements, fingers included, shoved up both their asses & their vaginas for a LONG time.

My point is that if it were men who had the uterus other internal reproductive gizmos, you can goddamn well bet that there would be a comfortable and convenient way to be examined that didn't include spreading your legs and squatting down to the edge of a examining table. Men don't take well to feeling vulnerable and humiliated so I'm sure they would do something to assure they didn't feel that way.

Well, you fuckers, women don't like it either.

Speaking my peace @ 11:24 AM [link this]

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