No One Reports for Women
Janet Kuypers
2/15/22
I would start this like a news reporter, saying
“Dateline, your town here”,
but news about women’s issues is nonexistent,
which makes women wonder
if concerns for women are nonexistent too.
Recently I heard reports from multiple women
who had been on birth control
for 99% of their fertile lives—
they contracted the most recent variant of Covid-19
(and yes, they got vaccines and booster shots,
making Covid-19 like getting a minor cold)
but these women noticed a week after recovery
(two weeks before their period should arrive)
they started spotting, which didn’t stop—
so after ten says, they asked around
and found
that other women were having this trouble
with their reproductive health too,
and no one had researched how to solve it.
But really, think about it: who would have the time
to research something when they worked like mad
just to come up with a vaccine on such short notice?
No one has questioned men’s fertility after Covid-19
and enough immunization to protect you from this...
But maybe the question should be this:
after women can now control their reproductive rights,
does that mean that after following their government’s edicts
to “protect” themselves and inject themselves,
they’ll still get sick, but, added bonus,
they’ll bleed daily for it?
Because this is exactly the type of problem
women don’t want to talk about in public
and trust me, this shouldn’t be a problem
any woman should ever have to deal with.
When women sit alone in their corners
with no support for their very personal problems,
they don’t know that other women go through this too.
That little level of sympathy
may assuage their feelings,
but it may amount to only a fleeting gesture
to know they’re not alone—
for the more you realize how common this may be,
the more any rational woman would wonder
why something isn’t being done
to solve what is becoming a real
bloody
problem.
When many women’s solution is to search the Internet
they may start to panic when they read reports
that birth control may increase blood clots,
and Covid-19 may exacerbate that risk further,
but, surprise surprise, more research needs to be done
to solve anything for women,
and this still doesn’t solve
this daily bleeding that men are stating is harmless
(fine, but men aren’t the ones bleeding every day).
So, this is beginning to sound more like
more of the same, women think,
we are in pain, and nothing is being done.
There may be theories that estrogen and progesterone
may play a role in the novel coronavirus
(may this explain the Covid-19 reaction differences
between feminine me and my masculine husband?)
but taking estrogen daily, could that effect
the vaccine, or the virus?
Well, it doesn’t matter if one doctor after another
hears a stack of anecdotal evidence from their patients,
because stories aren’t proof,
and women are all still stuck,
bleeding,
with no way to solve their medical problems.
And for the men out there
that don’t want to think about women bleeding
(even though men have no problem
with the same women bearing and raising their children,
which women have to bleed monthly for to make happen),
similar stories arise with young women,
possibly wanting to have children one day,
missing their period for four months
after getting Covid-19, with irregular periods resuming
(though when one woman talked to her doctor about it,
they assumed it was from Covid-19, but to quote
the patient, “none seemed too concerned about it.”)
So, welcome to another case
of an unexpected medical problem for women
that no one can explain...
I jokingly said
that I’d like to start this story
by saying “Dateline (your town here)”—
but maybe I should have said all along:
Dateline, your neighborhood, or
Dateline, your street, or
Dateline, your home.
Because after only now hearing
the now upswelling cries
of women who follow the rules
and do what’s best for them—
women only suffer for it with no explanation, and
(of course)
can’t share their problems
in an effort to solve them.
If women could tell their stories
it may only be a stepping stone.
But if women did tell their stories,
you may only then realize
how serious
the problems women go though
can really be.
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