Comments on: The Single Girl Slut Shame http://unmarriedestate.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-single-girl-slut-shame/ Advice for the Unmarried...Finally! Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:22:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Lauri http://unmarriedestate.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-single-girl-slut-shame/#comment-33 Lauri Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:37:01 +0000 http://unmarriedestate.wordpress.com/?p=122#comment-33 I don't think my current gyn is all that great, but what I do like about her is her opinion of the FDA/Bush Administration's approval of Gardisil only for women under 27 ("they assume that if you're over 27 you're either married, a slut who already has every strain of HPV, or an old maid who will never have sex anyway"). She advised me to get the vaccine, even though it cost almost $500 for "unapproved" women and said she actively wrote to the FDA and Merck on a regular basis to get it approved for women up to 50! The one thing I really don't like about pretty much all of women's medicine though, is that the entire field has been so focused on pregnancy and not much else that there is just SO much that is just swept under the carpet. For example, I suffer from extreme PMDD and I have PCOS. But even the best doctors no almost NOTHING about these things, and all the treatments are just quick fixes. For example, if you have these problems, they just put you on the pill. Which yes, help a lot. But that's not what the pill is for, and of course, you get all the downsides of the pill when you're not even having sex and don't need it for contraception! Instead of looking for treatments that go to the cause of these problems- or hell, even figuring out the causes in the first place!- they just slap the pill on every problem. In a way I regret not going into medicine, because I feel like then I could DO something about this. I don’t think my current gyn is all that great, but what I do like about her is her opinion of the FDA/Bush Administration’s approval of Gardisil only for women under 27 (“they assume that if you’re over 27 you’re either married, a slut who already has every strain of HPV, or an old maid who will never have sex anyway”). She advised me to get the vaccine, even though it cost almost $500 for “unapproved” women and said she actively wrote to the FDA and Merck on a regular basis to get it approved for women up to 50!

The one thing I really don’t like about pretty much all of women’s medicine though, is that the entire field has been so focused on pregnancy and not much else that there is just SO much that is just swept under the carpet. For example, I suffer from extreme PMDD and I have PCOS. But even the best doctors no almost NOTHING about these things, and all the treatments are just quick fixes. For example, if you have these problems, they just put you on the pill. Which yes, help a lot. But that’s not what the pill is for, and of course, you get all the downsides of the pill when you’re not even having sex and don’t need it for contraception! Instead of looking for treatments that go to the cause of these problems- or hell, even figuring out the causes in the first place!- they just slap the pill on every problem. In a way I regret not going into medicine, because I feel like then I could DO something about this.

]]> By: Special K http://unmarriedestate.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-single-girl-slut-shame/#comment-30 Special K Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:49:15 +0000 http://unmarriedestate.wordpress.com/?p=122#comment-30 As a doctor myself, I must say that the medical profession is NOT objective. You didn't feel judged by this guy because he probably held the same views as you do. It is imperative for anyone giving another person RESPONSIBILITY for your health, to have the same views and philosophy. If there is something all people need, it is an advocate for health that will LISTEN. As a doctor myself, I must say that the medical profession is NOT objective. You didn’t feel judged by this guy because he probably held the same views as you do. It is imperative for anyone giving another person RESPONSIBILITY for your health, to have the same views and philosophy. If there is something all people need, it is an advocate for health that will LISTEN.

]]> By: Singlutionary http://unmarriedestate.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/the-single-girl-slut-shame/#comment-29 Singlutionary Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:35:57 +0000 http://unmarriedestate.wordpress.com/?p=122#comment-29 I LOVE that. I've been shamed by dentists and by down-there-docs. And I take pretty good care of my gums and my cervix. I LOVE that. I’ve been shamed by dentists and by down-there-docs. And I take pretty good care of my gums and my cervix.

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