I don’t know if this counts as governmental politics, but I was steeped for a few years in Baptist Christianity and the whoppers I was told there (like women being the vessel/cause of sin) took a few years to break free of.
Crikey that’s scary. Are there any specifics you’d be happy to share?
The (female, no less!) pastors of the church I went to were very much into what would today be called “tradwife” and “women should be subservient to men because serpent in Eden” and stuff like that. The Bible is full of misogyny, from beginning to end, and Baptists seem to focus mostly on that, by my experience.
That’s so sad, they turned it on themselves. It’s really shitty
(he/him) Double the above. That’s messed up big time!
I’m so sorry you went through that. No one is born into a place of blame (or magical exemption from it).
Thanks so much for your support! We’re trans inclusive women only here sorry I didn’t say that in the post 🥰
I was in the military and had gone to the doctor because I was having trouble breathing while running. He told me to just try harder. Ok.
I went to another doctor a year or two later for difficulty breathing while running. He told me I was just out of shape. By this point, I was gaining a fair amount of weight. But I figured 'yeah you’re probably right you’re the doctor '.
I ran and ran and ran as much and as best as I could. I was gaining so much weight. When I got back from a deployment, I was given such a cold shoulder by two people I trusted because all they saw was weight gain and that = laziness.
I separated from the military and moved on. Exercise was increasingly difficult. I could barely walk up the stairs without huffing and puffing. Finally, I passed out on a hike and had a full blown seizure.
I saw a doctor, said I couldn’t breathe and finally was told, oh, something’s wrong.
After a whirlwind of discovering just how fast the medical system can actually move when something is really bad, I ended up in the ICU for two months where a pulmonologist told me after a heart surgery that he didn’t know how I was still alive.
It took hiring a lawyer and a few years of fighting to get the military to admit it was their fault for not listening to me at fucking all - but now things have settled.
I’ve been diagnosed with this disease (pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, for any that are curious) for about seven years now, and I still haven’t quite chewed through the grief or the anger or anything really. But I’m surviving.
Damn man, reminds me of a friend of mine who just had a heart attack. Kept going to the Dr. with chest pain and getting it chalked up to indigestion and poor diet / alcohol consumption. He changed his diet, stopped drinking, still had the issues. Dude damn near died last week. I hope he lawyers up and sues tf out of the doctor
Gosh, that is just infuriating. I hope he’ll be ok
All signs seem to point to him being OK. He was in super rough shape for a couple of days. Sedated, feeding tube, breathing tube. I tried to give em a few days to give the family space, and the first time I went to visit, it was super hard to see him in that condition. He was opening his eyes and able to nod to yes/ no questions, but he was still very out of it and was barely conscious from all the sedatives. Thankfully the next time I went he was actually conscious and talking and they just took out the feeding tube. Now he’s back home. Will probably need to be on meds the rest of his life, but he’s still alive, and that’s what matters.
It just sucks because I absolutely know the feeling when a Dr is ignoring your feedback. I had chronic appendicitis that got written off as indigestion/ gerd as well, and it took me months if not a year to get it correctly diagnosed/treated. That fucker was ready to burst and I had a 105° fever and was shaking uncontrollably and had to go to the ER.
When they took the appendix out, all of the sudden I could eat spicy food again and drink beer. I haven’t had a tums since.
That it’s my fault if people mistreat me. I don’t cause their behaviour! They do.
Oh, that is such an insidious one. And women get the brunt of it.
Yep…
My parents told me theyd love and support me as long as i am happy. Lmfao
Ngl this one made me laugh out loud. solidarity fistbump
My mom told me she was dying. Over text. Because she was hurt that I was going to my cousins graduation 2 hours from them but not visiting.
