Summary: Women love to complain and whine, actual facts and science be damned. They love to play the victim in life. If you actually try to reason with them, don't expect anything to come out of it.
Full thread here.
A while ago I posted here detailing an argument in TwoX between a medical doctor and a group of angry feminists with gender studies degrees. It was on a medical subject, no less; but these women had righteous feminist anger and took it out on the doctor who was patiently trying to explain basic science to them.
Well, here we are a week later and the ol' girls still haven't learned their lesson. TwoX just upvoted an article whining about how there are more studies and more funding for erectile dysfunction than there are for PMS. Which if you think about it is a pants-backward retarded argument to make because the two are very different. But don't take my word for it - listen to that same medical doctor from before who bravely went into this thread as well to educate people on how medicine and science actually works:
Those writers should be embarrassed for making such a terrible comparison. If you want to argue that PMS needs more research, that's one thing, but to say that it is debilitating as ED is pretty ridiculous. ED is permanent and often leads to depression, alienation from spouse, etc. PMS comes and goes.
For the record, if I had to guess, I'd say that roughly half of all male patients that I had ask me for viagra did so at the request of their wives, who would often be with them at the appointment. It's not something men like to bring up otherwise.
Now I don't know a lot about which debilitating diseases and comparisons, but I tend to trust the experts - especially those who have spent their entire young adult life in medical textbooks doing research, like this guy. If he says erectile dysfunction causes more pain to families than PMS, I believe him. And it makes sense... PMS causes grumpiness and bleeding for a few days out of the month, erectile dysfunction can destroy whole families by disrupting a couple's sex life. It can cause depression, anxiety, psychological issues, etc.
But the legbeards of TwoX aren't about to give up just cause some fancy-pantsy educated "cardiologist" talking! No sir, they're strong independent women who don't need no man!
Whereas women who cant move from the ground for 48 hours every month totally dont experience any marital (or career fornthat matter!) side effects
WTF? Which woman has PMS so intense it leaves her frozen on the ground for 48 hours?
I've had to go to hospital more than once because I've collapsed in public due to PMS. I've never been diagnosed by a doctor with "PMDD" (??) and all I've been advised to take is paracetamol, which does basically nothing. ED is not comparable.
Notice the sarcastic question marks. This bitch doesn't even bother to do a wikipedia research on PMDD vs PMS, and she's butting in this thread anyway to argue with a doctor.
You're apparently a doctor, so why not tell me what condition my symptoms sound like? I'd think any half decent doctor might do that instead of saying "do your own research".
Reading wikipedia is hard.
You describe PMS as no where near as debilitating as ED and even go as far as implying that the comparison is borderline offensive. Yet you, as a (definitely) male person have never experienced PMS, so how would you know that ED is "worse" than PMS? Because ED causes depression? And PMS doesnt (lol)? Or because ED is "permanent"? And PMS only "comes and goes" for a week once a month for 40 years? How can you objectively make that call if you've literally never experienced it? Even if you've never experienced ED, I'm sure it's no coincidence that it's a lot easier for you to sympathize with the male experience than the female one.
Yeah! Evil male patriarchy! It's not like physicians have advanced degrees or years of specialized training or anything. If they say something that hurts females' feelings, it must be because they're mean ol' misogynists!
Bottom line - don't argue with feminists, or women in general. Logic and reason is not their strong point and they'll argue based on emotion instead. If you ever find yourself in a confrontational discussion with a feminist who's yelling about pay gaps or sexism in science or whatever, just make her sound silly. Agree and amplify. Smirk. Roll your eyes. Make it clear you have no intention of even seriously entertaining her arguments. Eventually she'll deflate.
TL;DR: Feminism is about emotions, not reason or logic. This is the result of a generation of women encouraged to pursue Social Justice and Gender Studies degrees instead of learning about things that actually matter.
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