Respect on Our Names: Every Human on This Planet Came Through Women

Did you see the controversy around the Canadian charity and the weird PSA around cervical cancer?  For Reference Women are done and through ...

Did you see the controversy around the Canadian charity and the weird PSA around cervical cancer? 

For Reference

Women are done and through with this habitual disrespect coming from charities, organizations, politicians, and the medical community. 

Overall, the use of accurate and respectful language when referring to women's reproductive body parts is essential to acknowledge our dignity, identity, and experiences.

Socially, males are allowed and given passes in entertainment, media, on the political trail, and increasingly; in the medical profession to refer to the female anatomy however they "feel". 

This must cease.

With each passing day, women are growing the voices, the strength and the courage to strongly reject this notion. 

 Some terms that are used to describe women's bodies have historically carried negative connotations.  They have never been validating or affirming and the intention has always been clear. 

The intent is to shame, disrespect, demean, and dismiss female bodies and all female human beings wholesale.    They were dusty and tired from the first day.  But you know, sexism, misogyny, racism, bigotry and general oppression of female human beings. 

Medical Sexism

Due to the male-dominated perspective in medicine and science by at least their mid-thirties, most women realize that their bodies are not given the same respect as male bodies. 

Ask any everyday woman, and she may share with you numerous stories of having her symptoms and complaints dismissed by medical professionals.  The older you get, the more you have to prepare yourself for rudeness, dismissal, and ignorance. And this is at the doctor's office. 

Culture

Women are not a monolithic group.  Language used to refer to women's body parts can carry significant cultural and social implications. As you grow and listen to more women, you get into the deeper layers of what female oppression has meant to various women from across the world.

Using incorrect terms can be seen as disrespectful or insensitive to women's experiences and the importance of their bodily autonomy. A strong combination of sensitivity, compassion, and empathy is very important. Women have been subjected to some extremely horrific acts of torture and abuse. 

 If a healthy, able, fully grown adult does not use proper scientific terms and definitions to describe women's body parts, it is because they do not want to.

 Going forward this will be less and less acceptable. 

As women, we must continue to demand proper respect. A mere glimpse at history will inform you that respect for vulnerable people has never been freely offered or given without courage, struggle, and a fight. 

Reproductive Cancer Awareness

Suggestion: If you use apps, tools, and software online; for the rest of this month, pay close attention to the difference in how women's reproductive parts are spoken of and how male reproductive parts are spoken of.

Some apps for content creators have plenty of resources and templates for prostate cancer. When it comes to women though, there are little to no resources/templates for vulva, endometrial, cervical, or ovarian cancer. 

Lift your voice.

Keep lifting your voice.