Of course men had to make it about themselves so much that goddamn moderators had to step in and shut it down. Of fucking course.
This is horrifying. Girls and women are treated with so little regard. When I was seven years old the doctor discovered that I had an imperforate hymen. With no warning and no anesthetic, my father held my hands down while the doctor cut through the imperforate hymen. I screamed bloody murder. I also repressed the memory until after I had given birth to my son when I was 25 years old.
The first few times I felt that I “should” give into intercourse when I was a teenager, it hurt like hell. My female friends thought I was being overly dramatic. When I went to the student health center after being raped, I tried to talk to the medical student on duty about pain during sex, and he tried to explain to me that when a virgin has sex for the first time. I burst into tears and said that he didn’t understand anything I was saying. I had an infection as well and let him examine me (a nurse was in the room) but I was extremely traumatized.
I had a nervous breakdown during that year. I tried to tell my father what happened, and he told me that I shouldn’t have “put myself in that situation.” (I was drunk and went with a guy to his place.) The guy came back later and said that he hoped he’d gotten me pregnant so we’d have to stay together. I told him to get away from me and never come back again. I didn’t go to the police because I knew I wouldn’t be believed since I’d been drunk when it happened.
I’m sorry to have gone off on a tangent. I just remember all my life not being treated well by doctors or listened to because I’m a woman. And people wonder why I went close to 30 years without ever getting a pelvic exam.
What this woman went through is even more horrifying than what happened to me.
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