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Saturday, February 14, 2004
 | WoMeno-Pause
One of the regulars on the FFF compliments my blog but complains about the posts on menopause. Do I even need to say that the complainer is a male IFB fundy? Short answer, man: No! Do you realize that with millions of women going through menopause, our medical system still remains largely clueless about why symptoms of the "change of life" are so varied among women and so acute for so many. We have a vague idea of this thing called progesterone, but really, medical science doesn't comprehend everything it does in a woman's body. |
So, why the appalling ignorance of what is going on in over half the population by the time we hit our mid-forties? Oh, I dunno, maybe it's because for decades medical testing was almost always done on men. The assumption was that women would always react the same way--one of those erroneous assumptions that should have been ruled out by a freshman in college but was accepted by medical researchers everywhere.
Researchers understand the mechanisms by which men go bald, men get prostrate cancer, how prostrate cancer progresses, at what rate. They don't really know what goes on during menopause.
So the answer is no, I am not going to stop posting about menopause. It's a fact of life, fundy guys. Get over your juvenile squeamishness. It deserves to be understood, acknowledged as part of God's plan for women (and hence for their longsuffering husbands who must put up with it), and treated as a valuable cycle of life that imparts to women a new series of changes in which they must rely on the Lord in brand new ways.
Menopause is not going anywhere. And someday, some of the fundy guys who moan about these posts, may stop and be thankful that some woman somewhere warned them of what their wives might go through in their mid to late 40's. Believe me, you want to be forewarned. I wish I'd known ahead of time how difficult it could be. Now, where's my soy milk? Oh, and the progesterone cream?
