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[judywatt]

i never heard of the book "feminine forever" but wow, how misogynist was that -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16397237

but then i've never had the urge to go on HRT either
thank god, goddess and goodness.

so many "cures" for things end up being worse than the illness
and when the condition isn't even an illness, i'd rather not give myself cancer
just so i can be "feminine forever"... which women are anyway, just being women.

Comments

[tricia-joy.livejournal.com]

Have you read anything about the Suzanne summers book? apparently she is a big advocate for hrt.

[judywatt.livejournal.com]

nope, have not read any of her books. i'm not qualified to judge what's right for other people to do though. am just speaking for myself here and how i've always felt about the cure sometimes being worse than the supposed disease.

[aellia.livejournal.com]

I never too HRT and I don't see any masculine traits in myself :-)
x

[judywatt.livejournal.com]

hehe, well, i am a little on the androgynous side myself, partly very feminine and partly not.

but i have always been this way and have not noticed any changes in that as i'm getting older.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Ew. :/

I once knew a woman who was maybe 66, still getting not-very-dependable dribbly periods on HRT, and was so sick of menstruating.

[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

wow. that's some crazy shit.

[judywatt.livejournal.com]

i know, i thought the same thing!

i never heard of the book from 40 years ago, but reading the article made me think "what a woman-hating jerk" and feeling bad for all the women who took high does of HRT for years based on "information" like that from doctors.

they give people drugs that have not been tested properly in the first place, and then 30 or 40 years later, after they've used people as paying guinea pigs and seen the results, they decide, oops, this drug seems to be not such a great idea to use the way we've told them to use it.

[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

it's scary how frequently vastly similar things are still going on. i don't go to doctors at all for any reason, except emergencies i think i can't handle which are rare. when i had kidney stones for the first time in my life earlier this year, i did go to doctors. i was horribly abused and disrespected as a woman, and it made me hundreds of times less likely to ever want to return. anyway, now i know exactly what kidney stones are like/about and it's just one more thing to add to my repertoire of things i can treat on my own at home.

[judywatt.livejournal.com]

the whole situation with women being used as paying guinea pigs as they were told that those horrible leaky silicone breast implants were fine to use is very similar. the implants were never tested to begin with, but were then used for decades before being removed from the market. now they areback on the market, supposedly "safe" now... yeah, sure they are.

i feel the same way about doctors as you do, very turned off by the whole system - they give you stuff you don't need half the time, or that makes your problem worse, and then you have to fight them for what you DO need. it's such a screwed up system.

[ionracas.livejournal.com]

He defined a natural human condition as a disease...

I find that so disturbing, so much of that goes on still and everyone buys in to it. It makes me furious what drug companies have gotten away with, still get away with.

thanks so much!

[loobiloo.livejournal.com]

Ive never heard of this dreadful book but Ive ordered it from Amazon as it will be perfe4ct for my MA project on invisible women... so thanks Judy!

Re: thanks so much!

[judywatt.livejournal.com]

glad it will be useful to you! i had never heard of it either until i read that article.