Friday, May 29, 2026

Did they ever put other kinds of birds beside canaries in coal mines?

"Polycystic ovary syndrome: the canary in the coal mine for discrimination in health care"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41679419/

Childhood Trauma, Coping Styles, and Mental Health in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12649152/

It's so weird to think that society is finally  recognizing that a combination of factors, such as fluctuations in various patterns of your body chemistry and stress related hormones might make some people more prone to bad symptoms that can occur with PCOS / PMOS / Dysmenorrhea, etc. On a more ranty note, if there were times in the past when some people acted like they needed to be complicit with rape culture in order to fit in with their preferred environments, for example, by worshipping a cult leader who raped a 19-year-old hotel maid, and acting as if he were bigger than Jesus and the best girl dad they could think of, and even after a whole bunch of children got killed in a completely unnecessary helicopter crash along with him, they continued wanting to follow their addiction to hero-worshipping abusive patriarchal cult figures even more, well, that certainly didn't make a stressed out body feel any safer. But as more and more people expect to have better lives and stop following the unsafe and unhealed ways that the patriarchy tried to instill in their minds, perhaps there will be more support available to the genetically different (and disadvantaged) ones in the future.

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