@RickiTarr The medical community barely knows shit about it! I had to go to an Osteopathic natural doctor to get relief and it's 100% out of pocket! I feel SO much better! I've been on HRT since January 2023! My obgyn just started treating it in the last couple of years and the first time I said I had unbearable Hot Flashes, she wanted to put me on Antidepressants. I'm not depressed. A side effect of the mess were less hot flashes. With HRT the flashes are gone and I lost 18 pounds!
@RickiTarr I'm 58, menopause beat the shit out of me, and today thankfully I'm on HRT and I feel fabulous.
However the patriarchy doesn't want healthy, empowered older women, we're far to dangerous for the patriarchy.
Transgendered or CIS, we were never meant to live without hormones, whether we make our own or need it artificially.
But you can bet that the fascists will do anything they can think of to prevent us from being healthy, strong and clear headed:
Clear thinking is detrimental to fascism.
@RickiTarr menopause is FASCINATING. almost no species exhibit it (no matter how long they live.) it’s like us, orcas, some weird moles or something? People think it’s basically so that older matriarchs could care for their grandchildren without competing with them.
Doesn’t mean it’s fun. But it is an evolved strategy that points to communal, intergenerational child rearing as a key to our success!
@RickiTarr Never thought of it like that. I wonder how it came about from an evolutionary perspective. Unless, women had menopause younger in earlier times? My mum was only 43, apparently.
@RickiTarr Always so weird when people talk about how this or that isn't natural. Nor is harnessing electricity but I don't see anyone desperate to get rid of that as an unnatural intrusion.
@RickiTarr Yep. Humans are pretty useless, all said. We're weak and slow and incredibly vulnerable. But the one thing we are really good at is working together to create ways to protect ourselves.
We're great at forming multi-skilled communities that can cooperatively develop solutions to fix all our problems. Without that, we'd all have been wiped out hundreds of thousands of years ago.
@RickiTarr i’m cis so i’m getting some gender affirming surgery when i win power all. gender affirming boobs, lipo, bloaty lips, the whole 9 yards. to affirm my gender 😂
@RickiTarr a kind mercy for them to be spared the ongoing barrage of issues. Some of these symptoms I keep thinking is this serious? or just part of it? Alarming at times.
@RickiTarr The average is heavily weighted by child mortality though. So the majority of women who made to adulthood probably lived long enough to experience menopause.
There's actually some interesting theories about post-menopausal women being particular targets of witch hunts, because they didn't fit into the neat gender roles any more.
@RickiTarr One real quick well actually thing though that isn't meant to dispute as much as as people have gotten older life expectancy has risen, it is only rising for the people at the bottom of the bell curve, the people at the top of the bell curve living in their hundreds is pretty stable as far as I have recollection. That stuff usually has to do with tight community health issues and plenty of money..
So the richer you were, better chances you'd live long enough for it,
@RickiTarr When looking at historical life expectancy numbers, it's worth remembering the gawdawful levels of infant and child mortality.
As I understand it, people who made it into 30s lived as long as many of us do now. Just an awful lot of people died in their first year or first 10 years, and that pulls the average (which is the life expectancy number) way down.
Which means plenty of people with menopause a century ago...
@RickiTarr I thought there were studies that in most hunter gatherer societies there are plenty of people who live 70 or 80 years. It is just that child mortality rates are higher because of a lack of vaccines and antibiotics.
You were also more likely to be murdered. It was probably the leading cause of death after childbirth. Some archeologists believe that prehistoric non-State death rates from violence were as high as 60%!
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