Its satirizing the tendency for doctors to be more dismissive of women having pain than men, for example. This would be more of a problem with non-visible causes of pain, especially ones that predominantly effect women such as chronic migraines. This comic extrapolates this to comedic effect by using a gunshot wound instead.
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I love how a 4 panel comic about dismissal of women’s medical concerns is getting multiple commentors who want to dismiss those problems because a 4 panel comic doesn’t explicitly go into the a specific nuance they are focused on. Plenty of people get the punchline just fine without it.
It’s not about pregnancy. It’s about dismissing pain and blaming symptoms on hormones.
Ah yes, insults instead of addressing the context of the comment.
I’m explaining why the comic doesn’t make sense, and addressing your incorrect information and also now comprehension.
If you can’t even see that this isn’t a 4 panel comic, why should we even take anything else you say as correct? When you can’t even count panel amounts.
4 panel comics and 8 panel comics, are different narratives, you can’t use 4 panel logic and narrative in an 8 panel. So it changes how the comic works. Just like a short story vs a poem. They’re just different things.
Wait, so you can’t follow a story past four panels? What is “four panel logic?” I think you made that up.
No, a poem and short story are two different ways to tell a narrative. You can’t write a poem in a short story format than cry foul when people don’t get the point because it no longer works.
How did you even get that form what I said? Oh right, you seem to have an issue with wanting to insult people Lmfao.
In every one of my comments I try to bring the discussion back to the narrative of the comic, you brought up pregnancy, which I addressed.
And in every response people, not just me, have tried to explain to you why the narrative just doesn’t bloody work. Doesn’t matter what your backround or how much you know about it, you’re failing basic language comprehension issue. Most people have agreed with those, and still tried to point you correct on the issue with comic.
It’s not the exaggeration that makes it badly written and controversial, it’s using the period question as a stand in for dismissal. Both things can be true: it is a good thing for med pros to ask this question AND doctors routinely discount women’s concerns AND this comic combines the two which is generating lots of discussion here.
Yeah, that comic is pretty badly written, jumbling together to many things to make a clear point while using extreme hyperbole to obfuscate its actual meaning even more.
Tbh, doctors (like anyone working any job) tend to fall into a pattern-matching routine quite often. My son has a chronic condition that required quite a few hospital stays over his life. Even though my son is not a woman and doesn’t get periods, there have been quite a few situations where doctors didn’t take him or us (both my wife and me) serious and/or were stuck in automatic mode.
One example (of many): We are in hospital, my son is there as an inpatient. He was maybe a year old at this time and sleeping in his bed. Nurse comes in and routinely checks his temperature with a forehead thermometer. It reads as 42°C (107.6°F) and the nurse panics and immediately sprints out of the room to get temperature reducing medicine. While she’s gone I touch his forehead and it doesn’t even remotely feel warm. I take the thermometer and check the temperature a few times and it always reads as 37°C (98.6°F) every time, so totally fine. She comes back with a syringe filled with medicine and I say “Stop, he doesn’t have high temperature”. She ignores me and moves to inject the medicine anyway, and I quickly pull out the thermometer to show her the temperature, telling her again to stop. Finally she relents and agrees to check the temperature again, which she does a few times and realizes he doesn’t have any fever after all.
Turns out, my son was hooked up to pre-heated oxygen, and apparently when she first took his temperature, she must have accidentally touched the oxygen hose with the thermometer, and the oxygen hose is preheated to 42°C.
I have numerous similar stories.
(That’s not to say that this problem doesn’t affect women more, but that the underlying problem is a human problem, not an anti-women problem. Women have more complex physiology, so it does make sense that they are a victim of something like that more often. But the underlying issue is not that doctors hate/dismiss women, but that doctors dismiss everyone whenever they have a plausible chance to do so. With issues like that it’s important to focus on the actual problem at hand, because that usually has a different and better solution.)
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As WalrusDragonOnABike so perfectly put it:
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It’s not about pregnancy. It’s about dismissing pain and blaming symptoms on hormones.
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I have more sources. They’re bookmarked. Does anyone need them or do we get it yet?
It’s not a 4 panel comic, they tried using more panels for extra context and fucked it up.
“I didn’t get it so the comic is wrong.”
Ah yes, insults instead of addressing the context of the comment.
I’m explaining why the comic doesn’t make sense, and addressing your incorrect information and also now comprehension.
If you can’t even see that this isn’t a 4 panel comic, why should we even take anything else you say as correct? When you can’t even count panel amounts.
4 panel comics and 8 panel comics, are different narratives, you can’t use 4 panel logic and narrative in an 8 panel. So it changes how the comic works. Just like a short story vs a poem. They’re just different things.
Wait, so you can’t follow a story past four panels? What is “four panel logic?” I think you made that up.
I was quoting someone else.
My information is from reputable sources in healthcare, journalism and medicine. Do we not recognize Ph D’s here, now?
In every one of my comments I try to bring the discussion back to the narrative of the comic, you brought up pregnancy, which I addressed.
I don see this conversation being productive, so you can have the last word and I won’t respond. Enjoy the rest of your week.
No, a poem and short story are two different ways to tell a narrative. You can’t write a poem in a short story format than cry foul when people don’t get the point because it no longer works.
How did you even get that form what I said? Oh right, you seem to have an issue with wanting to insult people Lmfao.
And in every response people, not just me, have tried to explain to you why the narrative just doesn’t bloody work. Doesn’t matter what your backround or how much you know about it, you’re failing basic language comprehension issue. Most people have agreed with those, and still tried to point you correct on the issue with comic.
So it’s just badly written then
But yea it seems like your interpretation is correct, though the extreme amount of exaggeration in the comic made it less understandable
It’s not the exaggeration that makes it badly written and controversial, it’s using the period question as a stand in for dismissal. Both things can be true: it is a good thing for med pros to ask this question AND doctors routinely discount women’s concerns AND this comic combines the two which is generating lots of discussion here.
Yeah, that comic is pretty badly written, jumbling together to many things to make a clear point while using extreme hyperbole to obfuscate its actual meaning even more.
Tbh, doctors (like anyone working any job) tend to fall into a pattern-matching routine quite often. My son has a chronic condition that required quite a few hospital stays over his life. Even though my son is not a woman and doesn’t get periods, there have been quite a few situations where doctors didn’t take him or us (both my wife and me) serious and/or were stuck in automatic mode.
One example (of many): We are in hospital, my son is there as an inpatient. He was maybe a year old at this time and sleeping in his bed. Nurse comes in and routinely checks his temperature with a forehead thermometer. It reads as 42°C (107.6°F) and the nurse panics and immediately sprints out of the room to get temperature reducing medicine. While she’s gone I touch his forehead and it doesn’t even remotely feel warm. I take the thermometer and check the temperature a few times and it always reads as 37°C (98.6°F) every time, so totally fine. She comes back with a syringe filled with medicine and I say “Stop, he doesn’t have high temperature”. She ignores me and moves to inject the medicine anyway, and I quickly pull out the thermometer to show her the temperature, telling her again to stop. Finally she relents and agrees to check the temperature again, which she does a few times and realizes he doesn’t have any fever after all.
Turns out, my son was hooked up to pre-heated oxygen, and apparently when she first took his temperature, she must have accidentally touched the oxygen hose with the thermometer, and the oxygen hose is preheated to 42°C.
I have numerous similar stories.
(That’s not to say that this problem doesn’t affect women more, but that the underlying problem is a human problem, not an anti-women problem. Women have more complex physiology, so it does make sense that they are a victim of something like that more often. But the underlying issue is not that doctors hate/dismiss women, but that doctors dismiss everyone whenever they have a plausible chance to do so. With issues like that it’s important to focus on the actual problem at hand, because that usually has a different and better solution.)
It is even less obvious that this comic would want to target both