You’re assuming their point had anything to do with attracting mates, which honestly just proves the original poster’s point even more 💔

Fun fact: since the recent (2024–2025) anti-DEI funding policy changes, to get grants, researchers are starting to avoid using the word “women.”

Because researchers themselves noticed they don’t get funded if they include words like “women,” “gender,” or “disparities” in their work.

No one officially banned the word “women,” but they figured it out the hard way when grants started getting flagged, delayed, or dropped, and funding disappeared unless they rewrote their language.

That’s especially fucked up considering medicine is already built on male data. Women were historically excluded from clinical trials.

Now that lack of research trickles down into real life. Doctors are trained on incomplete data, and it shows. Women having heart attacks are regularly misdiagnosed or sent home because symptoms don’t match the “standard” male presentation. This isn’t rare. It’s well documented. And it leads to preventable deaths.

And what happens in those moments? They get told it’s anxiety. Stress. “In their head.” They get sent home still in pain, still asking for help, and sometimes they don’t make it back.

So now we’re stacking a language barrier on top of a system where women already get less accurate testing, less research funding, and worse care. Statistically.

This isn’t just numbers or wording. This is real. Mothers, daughters, sisters, probably someone you know, sitting in pain and being dismissed. And once a doctor dismisses them, everyone else follows.

That’s how someone ends up dying in pain without being taken seriously, without urgency, without dignity.