4 ms·

Perhaps it was a reference to birth control.

by aww_dang 4y ago

azalemeth 4y ago
The menopause or perimenopausal period, more like.
AlecSchueler 4y ago
Sometimes it's frightening to see what a male centric community HN is but this is hilarious.
- ben_w 4y ago
  As a guy, sad more than funny. My sex ed at (UK Catholic) school was terrible and I can't really say I know any better than the rest of the comments here, despite both curiosity and actually asking questions when dating women. (Without asking cis women, I wouldn't have guessed that low BMI can inhibit periods, nor that The Pill can sometimes make periods worse rather than better, nor the ways the implant can go wrong; and without knowing a trans woman specifically I wouldn't have found out about different bone density, though I can't remember how that came up in conversation now as she and I never dated). It is a bad thing that so many men don't/didn't get taught about the lived experiences of (just over) half the population, and are/have been just expected to find them alien and impossible to understand.
ben_w 4y ago
The researchers[0] listed that with an "and" rather than a "for example". > varying stages of the menstrual cycle, contraception and hormone-replacement therapies [0] or at least the @JusticeJuice quotation, as the free version of the article doesn't contain the link to the actual research paper…
- JusticeJuice 4y ago
  https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00156-2#secsectitle0015 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)... From the paper's discussion > Given that sex impacts the response to vaccine,9,25 we calculated separate overall ES for men and women. When sleep was assessed objectively, the pooled ES was large and highly significant for men, whereas it was smaller and not significant for women, likely due to the wide variations in sex hormone levels according to phase of the menstrual cycle, use of hormonal contraception, menopausal status, and use of hormonal replacement in post-menopausal women.25 None of the studies included in our meta-analysis controlled for these known hormonal modulators of immune function.
  - ben_w 4y ago
    Thanks! :)

Perhaps it was a reference to birth control.

azalemeth 4y ago

The menopause or perimenopausal period, more like.

AlecSchueler 4y ago

Sometimes it's frightening to see what a male centric community HN is but this is hilarious.

ben_w 4y ago
As a guy, sad more than funny. My sex ed at (UK Catholic) school was terrible and I can't really say I know any better than the rest of the comments here, despite both curiosity and actually asking questions when dating women. (Without asking cis women, I wouldn't have guessed that low BMI can inhibit periods, nor that The Pill can sometimes make periods worse rather than better, nor the ways the implant can go wrong; and without knowing a trans woman specifically I wouldn't have found out about different bone density, though I can't remember how that came up in conversation now as she and I never dated). It is a bad thing that so many men don't/didn't get taught about the lived experiences of (just over) half the population, and are/have been just expected to find them alien and impossible to understand.

ben_w 4y ago

The researchers[0] listed that with an "and" rather than a "for example". > varying stages of the menstrual cycle, contraception and hormone-replacement therapies [0] or at least the @JusticeJuice quotation, as the free version of the article doesn't contain the link to the actual research paper…

JusticeJuice 4y ago
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00156-2#secsectitle0015 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)... From the paper's discussion > Given that sex impacts the response to vaccine,9,25 we calculated separate overall ES for men and women. When sleep was assessed objectively, the pooled ES was large and highly significant for men, whereas it was smaller and not significant for women, likely due to the wide variations in sex hormone levels according to phase of the menstrual cycle, use of hormonal contraception, menopausal status, and use of hormonal replacement in post-menopausal women.25 None of the studies included in our meta-analysis controlled for these known hormonal modulators of immune function.
- ben_w 4y ago
  Thanks! :)