(Feb 6 2025, 3:08 PM)ShameMustChangeSides (Feb 6 2025, 2:00 PM)flytraps_ There’s a thread in the translogic section about pcos because of course another trans activist insisted that “terfs” equate PCOS to being not a woman. This wasn’t new from tras, but the comments from women on ovarit are themsleves ridiculous.
They’re ridiculing this woman for considering her PCOS a disability and there’s one who had the audacity to claim PCOS was “just a little facial hair”. The lack of support or understanding for women with the condition is really astounding.
I know at least 4 women who have PCOS and the number of ways they're affected by it are more than a few.
I can't believe the venom that gets thrown at women the commenters deem "morons." Like yes, some women are uninformed or are surviving patriarchy in really maladaptive and self-destructive ways, but I don't think they deserve open contempt like that.
I'm so glad to see this is a common sentiment on here. It's ridiculous that so-called feminists (or, at least, women on a female-focused site that—at least at one point—mostly featured feminist discussions) have to be reminded to have sympathy for women and girls who are clearly suffering from internalized misogyny. Or even just sympathy for women with PCOS, endometriosis, PMDD, or any other variety of "extremely shitty period disease". I have (rather, "had before I got fed up and went on meds") horrible periods myself, but I somehow think/hope even if I didn't, I'd still be able to somehow, mysterious avoid wanting to from thinking, let alone posting said thought on a public site, that women who suffer from them "melodramatic morons" or whatever.
Also, I find the "just a little facial hair" comment very telling. To someone who isn't willing to listen to women who have different life experiences discuss said experiences, the only thing about PCOS that's left is the visually observable side effects. If you choose to plug your ears when women with PCOS talk about all the ways it's impacted their lives, then all the disease is to you is what you choose to see.
I also don't know where this idea of the biological fact of women having periods (by itself, just the bleeding happening to any given woman) somehow supports female solidarity or feminist thinking or something. (Which is where, I'm
guessing the criticism is coming from? Unless it's really as simple as "I don't mind my periods, they don't suck for me, so everyone who says otherwise must just be acting hyperbolic for attention.")
Like I get how annoying and wrong trans ideology can be about it sometimes, and I get we need to counteract the shame and misinformation surrounding it... But how does acting like women who have a problem with having about a third of their year stolen from them (especially if they don't even want to have kids) are being class traitors help combat male supremacy exactly?
