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When Did it Become Acceptable for Men to Talk About a Woman’s Physiology in Public?

Sue Hirsch
3 min readJan 28, 2022

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Doctors don’t do that, except in their capacity as doctors. Teachers don’t do that, unless they’re teaching sex education and that is a controversial topic for schools. No professional does it outside of their profession and only then if it’s relevant and pertinent.

But suddenly, since 2016, when tRump said something about “blood coming out of her (Megyn Kelly’s) wherever” it’s become acceptable for ANY MAN to talk about ANYTHING related to ANYONE’S physiology.

It’s all part and parcel of the rape culture in which the past generation was raised, and one can only hope that for the sake of a more decorous and higher class future, we learn from that tragic mistake.

Since reading a lot of things that current Republican politicians have said about women and mainly about rape of women, I’ve come to realize just how lacking their educations really were. I’ve also come to realize that they are also lacking in any semblance of common sense.

Just as guests who behave badly in my home don’t get invited back, so to, do badly behaved politicians end up not often getting re-elected. Some of them even end up impeached and with years of legal troubles on their hands.

Is that beside the point? Maybe. If it is, then maybe a little tit for tat will bring the point home in a more concrete manner. How about if we talk about prostatitis? That’s a pretty “typical male problem”. There are a

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