And That’s Just the Start of How Medicine Butchered Women’s Bodies
If you think Halloween horror movies are scary, wait until you learn what medicine has done to women. Yes, the chainsaw was originally invented for childbirth.
Two men created it in the 18th century to cut through pelvic bone and cartilage during obstructed labor. And that’s not a metaphor. That’s actual medical history.
And somehow, it feels like nothing’s changed. Because even today, women’s bodies are still being sliced, silenced, and studied as if our pain doesn’t matter.
Medicine Was Built Without Women in Mind
Medicine was never neutral. It was built on male bodies, for male comfort. For decades, research only used men because studying women was “too complicated.” So every drug dosage, every diagnostic test, every treatment plan was written for the male body, and women have paid the price ever since (NIH 2021).
We now know that menstrual cramps can cause pain as intense as a heart attack, yet women are told to “just take paracetamol.” Our pain tolerance is biologically higher, but instead of being respected for that, it’s used against us.
Even when women are having heart attacks, doctors often dismiss them as anxiety or indigestion, and too often, that delay is fatal. And when men tried a male birth control pill, they shut down the trials because of “unpleasant side effects.” Headaches. Fatigue. Mood swings.
Exactly what women endure daily on the pill, only no one ever cared when it was us (BBC 2016). Meanwhile, vasectomies, a quick, low-risk, reversible procedure, are barely discussed, while women are handed a pharmacy of hormones, coils, and implants that can wreck their bodies for decades.
And the IUD? That “tiny little device” doctors say you’ll “barely feel”? It literally inflames your uterus to make it inhospitable to pregnancy. You can even develop copper toxicity from certain IUDs, causing nausea, anxiety, fatigue, and joint pain, while being told it’s all in your head.
If a man’s birth control worked by inflaming or poisoning one of his organs, the outrage would be global.
Testing Periods with Water
For decades, scientists tested pads and tampons using saline water, not blood, because real menstrual blood was “too messy.” It wasn’t until 2023 that researchers finally tested menstrual products with real blood and, shocker, the results didn’t match the manufacturer claims.
Menstrual fluid is thicker, heavier, and behaves differently. But instead of facing that truth, the industry kept lying to women and calling it science.
And that’s not even the worst part. Studies have shown that many pads contain carcinogenic dyes and volatile compounds, chemicals absorbed through the skin month after month.
Independent lab tests by Women’s Voices for the Earth found emissions from popular brands that include toxins flagged as carcinogens or reproductive hazards. Some tampons contain bleaching agents and synthetic fibers that can irritate vaginal tissue and may even alter bleeding patterns.
That’s not “feminine care.” That’s corporate exploitation wrapped in pastel packaging.
We’ve been gaslit into thinking these products are hygienic and empowering when they’re quietly making us sick.
Cold Plunges: World’s Male Obsession
The biohacking craze, cold plunges, fasting, dopamine resets, is marketed like self-love, but the data behind it? Mostly men. Cold plunges spike adrenaline and cortisol, great for short-term endurance, especially with men’s cycle working on a 24h cycle but potentially disruptive for female hormonal balance.
But do we get that disclaimer? Of course not. Because even “wellness” follows the same old rule: if it works for men, it must be fine for women.
The Egg, the Sperm, and the Double Standard
For decades, fertility has been branded as a female problem.
We’re told our eggs get old, our clocks are ticking, and our worth declines with time.
But new research shows sperm also deteriorates, with DNA fragmentation, genetic mutations, and fertility risks increasing sharply with age.
And here’s what almost no one talks about: male DNA is primarily responsible for forming the placenta. If sperm is damaged or the father’s environment is toxic, it can cause placental dysfunction and miscarriage.
Yet women are the ones who absorb the grief, shame, and blame. Maybe the biological clock isn’t just ours after all. Maybe science just never wanted to look too closely at the other side of the equation.
Birth Was Never Meant to Be This Way
When I gave birth, it was amazing, primal, raw, exactly what I wanted. But I had to fight for that experience, because modern birth is built for doctors, not mothers. We’re told to lie on our backs, the most unnatural position possible, because it’s easier for them to see what’s going on.
Easier for them, harder for us. And if the chainsaw wasn’t proof enough, let’s remember how far this history of control goes. Medicine took the most sacred, natural experience in the world and mechanized it.
They replaced instinct with interventions, wisdom with fear, and told women to stay quiet through the pain.
Here’s the part no one dares to talk about: birth isn’t meant to be horror, it’s meant to be power. When a woman feels safe, supported, and unafraid, her body releases oxytocin, the same love hormone that fuels connection, pleasure, and orgasm.
That oxytocin surge helps contractions flow, eases pain, and bonds mother and baby.
But you can’t release oxytocin under fluorescent lights, surrounded by masked strangers barking orders.
Your body can only open when you feel held, when you feel loved, when you are surrounded by women. Birth was always a woman’s business.
We were meant to be supported by midwives, sisters, and mothers, not monitored by machines. And yes, a lot of women experience orgasms during birth, not because it’s sexual, but because it’s deeply physiological.
Pleasure, power, and birth share the same pathways. You can be shocked, or you can research it, either way, it’s real. You are not supposed to suffer. You are not supposed to tear. You are not supposed to be traumatized.
When the body is respected, supported, and trusted to do what it’s designed to do, birth can be transcendent, a sacred act of creation, not a medical emergency.
But that truth has been stolen from us, replaced with fear, control, and silence.
Women Deserve Real Medicine, Not Afterthoughts and Adjustments
Everywhere you look, women’s health is dismissed as a niche problem. Our pain? Minimized. Our hormones? Pathologized. Our fertility? Monetized. Take endometriosis, one of the most painful and underdiagnosed diseases on Earth.
It can cause organs to fuse together, yet women wait years for diagnosis, told it’s “just bad cramps.” The average diagnosis takes almost a decade.
We’ve been conditioned to endure pain that would send most men to the ER and still be called dramatic for it. It’s time to stop shrinking ourselves to fit a system that was never built for us. Medicine needs to start over, with women as the blueprint, not the afterthought.
Because if men could get pregnant, abortion wouldn’t be a debate, it would be a benefit on every health plan. It would be efficient, funded, and probably marketed as self-care.
When pain happens to men, it’s a crisis. When it happens to women, it’s just biology.
This isn’t rage. This is clarity. And now that we see it, we’re not shutting up.
“The thought of women enjoying every part of their existence is so foreign to any modernized society that ever existed.”
— Milena Ryzhk;off
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