Devina McCall, Marcella Frostrup, Lisa Snowden and Patsy Kensit support the campaign to improve medical education about menopause treatment options.
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Medicine also neglects the female body: in England, menopausal women have discovered themselves to be a discriminated minority and are fighting for education and resources. A guest post.
AAt first glance it seems absurd and not at all suited to the British. After all, the Anglo-Saxon area is considered to be Protestant-Puritan, prudish and much more inhibited when it comes to the physical than old Europe. If a woman is examined by a doctor, he will carefully place a blanket over your abdomen so that you “do not have to see yourself”. This bashfulness may at first seem at odds with the vociferous debate currently raging in Britain about menopause and all its detailed symptoms. Radio, TV, Twitter anyway have discovered a new favorite topic. Under witty titles such as “Still Hot!” or “Quilt on Fire: The Messy Magic of Midlife”, new non-fiction books are constantly appearing on the subject that until a few years ago was either hushed up or euphemistically played down as “the change”.
The fact that this former taboo is now being broken so untypically boldly and that the openness of the debate far surpasses that in the normally more progressive German region can probably only be explained by the influence of the MeToo movement. Menopausal women have suddenly discovered themselves as a discriminated minority, as a doubly disadvantaged intersection of two groups of victims – women and the elderly. It’s as if MeToo had to teach them the confidence and entitlement needed to make themselves heard these days. As the recent history of social power struggles from the LGBTQ+ movement to Black Lives Matter to MeToo shows, this is best achieved as a victim.
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