Everything under the sun is blamed on our reproductive system.

Stomach pain? Just your period. Feeling lethargic/tired? Period, of course. Golf ball size hole in the head? Period, silly!

It’s fun going to the doc as a woman who has been sterilized and uses long-term hormones because they try so so hard to blame things on maybe being pregnant or my periods, but nope, never pregnant, not able, and haven’t had a period in a decade so that’s not it, try again lazy fuck.

Beyond that, there’s a common view that women are exaggerating their pain/discomfort, when research in fact shows women have a higher pain threshold than men.

And to top it off, women’s symptoms are often substantially different than men’s, yet men are what is studied (because aparently hormone fluctuations are too much of a confounding factor to bother studying half the population), so quite often, doctors don’t even know to associate things like being nauseous and having lower back pain with a heart attack, yet those are fairly common symptoms for women. Also, as above, very easy to say it’s just period discomfort.