- 🦄🦄🦄 ( @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ) 173•1 day ago
#womeninmalefields is describing common situations and phrases that women experience and turning them upside down by switching genders.
The analogy to this one would be a man telling a surgeon to surgically tighten a woman’s vagina after giving birth. This is a common and disgusting joke.
- klemptor ( @klemptor@startrek.website ) 168•1 day ago
Common and disgusting, but unfortunately not always a joke. You probably know this but for the benefit of others who may not be aware, the Husband Stitch is a real thing that used to be pretty commonly done regardless of what the woman wanted and often without her foreknowledge or consent. It’s an extra stitch or two placed when sewing a woman back up after a vaginal tear or episiotomy during labor. The purpose is to make the woman “tighter” so her husband can still enjoy having sex with her even though she’s given birth, which is staggeringly misogynistic and cruel. And it usually results in really painful sex for the woman because her vaginal opening is artificially small plus now it has inflexible scar tissue. It’s a horrific thing to do to a woman, especially after giving birth.
- 🦄🦄🦄 ( @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ) 41•1 day ago
Thank you for providing additional information!
- u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English25•1 day ago
Yep, a useful comment. I had no idea about such a thing.
- Lauchmelder ( @Lauchmelder@feddit.org ) 50•1 day ago
Jesus Christ, what kind of sick person comes up with stuff like that?
- CubbyTustard ( @CubbyTustard@reddthat.com ) 16•1 day ago
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/husband-stitch-is-not-just-myth
testosterone poisoning
- 🦄🦄🦄 ( @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ) 19•1 day ago
Men 🤷🏻
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 9•1 day ago
Sick people that’s who.
- 🦄🦄🦄 ( @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ) 10•1 day ago
Ok but in this case it’s men, specifically. That is what the hashtag is about.
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 7•1 day ago
That’s very generalising though.
Personally, I try to avoid that whenever possible.
- Kalysta ( @Kalysta@lemm.ee ) 5•24 hours ago
When this was invented, the majority of doctors were men.
It’s not generalizing if it’s true.
- 🦄🦄🦄 ( @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ) 8•1 day ago
Good on you.
It’s not generalising tho, these women describe situations they have experienced.
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 2•23 hours ago
It’s not generalising tho, these women describe situations they have experienced.
I never said it has never happened, just that you shouldn’t put the blame on an entire gender.
- SeekPie ( @SeekPie@lemm.ee ) 23•1 day ago
Thanks for explaining it, wouldn’t have understood it otherwise.
- riwo ( @riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 28•1 day ago
i dont get it :<
somewone pws explain the joke to me
- will_a113 ( @will_a113@lemmy.ml ) English41•1 day ago
Not sure if it was ever actually done or just urban legend but there used to be something called “the husband stitch” where an OBGYN would add another stitch while repairing an episiotomy (when a woman tears a bit giving childbirth) supposedly to make her vagina tighter. A lot of things there don’t add up, but that’s what the joke is about.
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 3•6 hours ago
Why do people think it’s an urban legend when women describe how they’ve been medically and sexually abused? 😐
- ADTJ ( @ADTJ@feddit.uk ) 1•7 minutes ago
Why is your comment so adversarial when previous commenter literally said they weren’t sure?
That’s not the same as dismissing women’s accounts so please don’t equate them
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 1•3 minutes ago
I didn’t mean them specifically. I assume the reason they’re not sure is because they’ve heard people call it a myth before, as have I. And I think it’s shitty that people do that.
- yannic ( @yannic@lemmy.ca ) 59•1 day ago
Oh, it’s real. This was offered for my sister-in-law.
- will_a113 ( @will_a113@lemmy.ml ) English9•1 day ago
Yikes.
- luciole (he/him) ( @luciole@beehaw.org ) 47•1 day ago
It’s not a joke nor a myth.
- wreel ( @wreel@lemmy.sdf.org ) English9•22 hours ago
Jesus fucking Christ. There are some real monsters practicing medicine.
- u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English21•1 day ago
Worth the read.
If someone was wondering, there is nothing NSFW in that post.
Probably even more dangerous in the back tbh