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Womens pain is often dismissed by medical professionals as them "exaggerating". Medical misogyny is very real and it kills women. >

I was in my 50s when this dawned on me. I remember another woman telling me that medical misogyny was a thing and I started to cry. It was like a movie running through my head as I started to remember every god damn time I have been dismissed. But then I started thinking of how my husband is treated. His last hospital visit was for a kidney stone. He got a private room with a view. I shit you not. >

Now imagine being not just a woman, but a black woman. I've have literally seen nurses dismiss women home in the ER saying "you people think this is a hotel, crying harder won't get us to move you into a room" while they're crying in pain >

I can't even begin to imagine. Women of color have to deal with misogyny and bigotry. And until people with privilege start standing up for those without the balance of power will never change.