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Have a corrective upvote. I don't think it's a completely unreasonable thought and possibly not entirely irrelevant. But a more likely explanation is that it i
by DoreenMichele 5y ago
Have a corrective upvote. I don't think it's a completely unreasonable thought and possibly not entirely irrelevant.
But a more likely explanation is that it is easier for men to understand what is going on with a man's body and it's easier to have that conversation between two men.
Medical research has a history of skewing towards investigating male health issues because men have historically been in charge of such research and because medical research has often been done on medical students and that population tended to be mostly male.
A male doctor I was friends with told me once that the first time some woman had her brain scanned, everyone was freaking out because it was radically different from all scans on record. Then they realized all brain scans on record were male and they had no meaningful baseline record for a female brain, so they had no idea what this meant and they calmed down. It maybe only meant that men and women have brain differences. It didn't necessarily mean there was something pathological going on.