madam-melon-meow:

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ancientnorthmartian:

“Doctors who spent years studying the human body”

Do you mean doctors who spent years learning about abled white cis men’s bodies

do you know anything about the world besides what you read on tumblr

Virtually all medical research is conducted on able white cis men’s bodies. Many studies show that women are systematically ignored or excluded from medical research. That’s why we didn’t know women have different heart attack symptoms until a couple of years ago. It’s why we miss dangerous side effects of many medications. It’s why conditions that are more prevalent in nonwhite populations are taken less seriously. 

Do you know anything about the world besides your preconceived notions of people on tumblr? Or would you rather just complain about “tumblr” instead of googling a thing. 

Doctors don’t even know what some illnesses look like on dark skin because all the examples are white.

Traditional rape indicating dye kits don’t work on dark skin and apparently no one thought it was important enough to research/rectify this until relatively recently.

Well damn.