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Tenaculum: For over 100 Years Women Have Endured Pain in Gynecology

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Re: Tenaculum: For over 100 Years Women Have Endured Pain in Gynecology

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The entire field of gynecology is founded upon intentional sadistic torture of women by male physicians. Tenaculam was originally invented to pull out bullet fragments out of soldiers. They never changed the design and use it to pinch the cervix and pulling it closer to the vaginal walls.

I just found out..fun fact: chainsaws were invented for childbirth. Yes. By two male doctors in 1780 to assist with Caesarian births to cut through the pelvic bone.

Think about such fun facts when you can’t answer ‘what is a woman?’

a more relevant question is: Why hasn’t the field of gynecology considerate enough to women’s pain? Just women’s healthcare in general. If penis cancer can only be detected by smashing the penis between two metal x ray plates just like they do with mammograms, then we would have cured cancer by now.

Re: Tenaculum: For over 100 Years Women Have Endured Pain in Gynecology

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The entire field of gynecology is founded upon intentional sadistic torture of women by male physicians. Tenaculam was originally invented to pull out bullet fragments out of soldiers. They never changed the design and use it to pinch the cervix and pulling it closer to the vaginal walls. I just found out..fun fact: chainsaws were invented for childbirth. Yes. By two male doctors in 1780 to assist with Caesarian birt…

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" We just did not know any better (yet).

49.72% of human beings are women. Among those my mother and two sisters which are medical doctors. Stop blaming men for everything we did not manage to fix. Plenty of us did try.

"It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness" and "Be the change you want to see in the world". As a man, I can tell you that I will personally celebrate anytime a woman joins STEM and fix/invent something new.

Re: Tenaculum: For over 100 Years Women Have Endured Pain in Gynecology

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The entire field of gynecology is founded upon intentional sadistic torture of women by male physicians. Tenaculam was originally invented to pull out bullet fragments out of soldiers. They never changed the design and use it to pinch the cervix and pulling it closer to the vaginal walls. I just found out..fun fact: chainsaws were invented for childbirth. Yes. By two male doctors in 1780 to assist with Caesarian birt…

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" We just did not know any better (yet). 49.72% of human beings are women. Among those my mother and two sisters which are medical doctors. Stop blaming men for everything we did not manage to fix. Plenty of us did try. "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness" and "Be the change you want to see in the world". As a man, I can tell…

Sorry, I didn’t get your point. Are you saying that women are solely responsible for inventing ‘something new’ in healthcare as it is only used for them?

Re: Tenaculum: For over 100 Years Women Have Endured Pain in Gynecology

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" We just did not know any better (yet). 49.72% of human beings are women. Among those my mother and two sisters which are medical doctors. Stop blaming men for everything we did not manage to fix. Plenty of us did try. "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness" and "Be the change you want to see in the world". As a man, I can tell…

Sorry, I didn’t get your point. Are you saying that women are solely responsible for inventing ‘something new’ in healthcare as it is only used for them?

You made a really heavy claim with "The entire field of gynecology is founded upon intentional sadistic torture of women by male physicians".

The other person is saying that there are many male and female doctors. If there would be a better option, it for sure would have been made possible. It's not male gyns wanting women to suffer - this doesn't make any sense, it's only there to create hate.

Re: Tenaculum: For over 100 Years Women Have Endured Pain in Gynecology

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I didn’t get your point. Are you saying that women are solely responsible for inventing ‘something new’ in healthcare as it is only used for them?

You made a really heavy claim with "The entire field of gynecology is founded upon intentional sadistic torture of women by male physicians". The other person is saying that there are many male and female doctors. If there would be a better option, it for sure would have been made possible. It's not male gyns wanting women to suffer - this doesn't make any sense, it's only there to create hate.

There “are”. But for most of medicine’s history there “weren’t”.

And men were making decisions about things they simply had no idea about.

Re: Tenaculum: For over 100 Years Women Have Endured Pain in Gynecology

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The entire field of gynecology is founded upon intentional sadistic torture of women by male physicians. Tenaculam was originally invented to pull out bullet fragments out of soldiers. They never changed the design and use it to pinch the cervix and pulling it closer to the vaginal walls. I just found out..fun fact: chainsaws were invented for childbirth. Yes. By two male doctors in 1780 to assist with Caesarian birt…

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" We just did not know any better (yet). 49.72% of human beings are women. Among those my mother and two sisters which are medical doctors. Stop blaming men for everything we did not manage to fix. Plenty of us did try. "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness" and "Be the change you want to see in the world". As a man, I can tell…

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Re: Tenaculum: For over 100 Years Women Have Endured Pain in Gynecology

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> To transform women and clinicians’ experience in the exam room, American company Ceek Women’s Health has recently launched a speculum made of plastic.

I am not sure whether this is a new invention considering disposable speculums made of plastic already existed.

Re: Tenaculum: For over 100 Years Women Have Endured Pain in Gynecology

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The entire field of gynecology is founded upon intentional sadistic torture of women by male physicians. Tenaculam was originally invented to pull out bullet fragments out of soldiers. They never changed the design and use it to pinch the cervix and pulling it closer to the vaginal walls. I just found out..fun fact: chainsaws were invented for childbirth. Yes. By two male doctors in 1780 to assist with Caesarian birt…

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Re: Tenaculum: For over 100 Years Women Have Endured Pain in Gynecology

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You made a really heavy claim with "The entire field of gynecology is founded upon intentional sadistic torture of women by male physicians". The other person is saying that there are many male and female doctors. If there would be a better option, it for sure would have been made possible. It's not male gyns wanting women to suffer - this doesn't make any sense, it's only there to create hate.

There “are”. But for most of medicine’s history there “weren’t”. And men were making decisions about things they simply had no idea about.

Using the same analogy, then all veterinarians are sadistic?
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