Stop romanticizing women’s pain

Stop romanticizing women’s pain

Women’s pain has a long history of being belittled, ignored and undertreated in the United States. Access to pain relief has been heavily racialized and classed, eugenic thinking has guided who is deserving of medical treatment and gynecology is founded in the exploitation of enslaved women’s bodies. Depending on their identity, women have been treated as hysterical or subhuman when seeking relief from their pain. Today, women still feel more pa…