How did I not see this the other night omg. But yes you are totally right… in fact sometimes I get myself worked up (who, me??????) over how freaking amazingly BRILLIANT Tony is, because he IS, his mind just blows me away sometimes like wow.
#okay but now I’m picturing scientists fangirling/boying over tony stark #but having to pause the conversation occasionally #(to their non-scientist friends continued frustration) #and go #‘BUT WHAT EVEN IS THAT THING???’ #‘what does it matter karen c’mon’ #‘HE SHOULD BE BURNING ALIVE IN FRONT OF US’ #‘karen seriously-’ #‘YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW DID HE DO THAT’#‘i do understand you do this every time-’#‘AND IN MINIATURE! HE MINIATURIZED IT! AND PUT IT IN HIS CHEST’ #‘karen’ #‘HOW’ #‘karen pls’ #‘I DON’T UNDERSTAND HIS GENIUS IS IMPOSSIBLE SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL HIM THAT THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE’ #‘karen it’s a pic of shirtless tony stark FOCUS PLS’ #karen does not focus (via hurricane-in-a-teacup)
the ‘he should be burning alive’ is a serious understatement honestly. to expand on the ask i sent, an arc reactor would work by combining a fission and a fusion reactor, probably in separate chambers. fission is pretty normal, only a couple of hundred degrees above human temperature usually. FUSION, however, is easiest sustained at temperatures of over 150 million degrees (celsius). and on top of that, to make the reactor self-sustaining without having to refuel it, it has to contain all of that 150 million degree heat within a tiny volume AND intake a ridiculous quantity of environmental temperature from the center of the light (the only place that would stop it from flash-freezing Tony’s flesh), because that temperature is what gets converted into the energy output.
with temperature ranges like that, Tony Stark has managed to find a way of avoiding simultaneously getting frozen and vaporized by the reactor.
It’s not an exaggeration to say he stuck a star in his chest.
People keep adding to this and it’s making me more and more emotional every time omg.
The medical community on literally every female specific health issue ever: “very common condition” “no known cause” “no known cure” :))))))
What the fuck is tumblr? Like honestly what is this? Do you guys pull shit out of the inner most depths of your rectum and then just throw it on your keyboard and have it turn into a post???? This site is something else what the fuck is wrong with you people????!?!?
Endemetriosis
Vaginal Thrush
Menorrhagia
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Fibroids
Very common conditions, causes are unknown or only speculated, long term cures have not been found. Most can cause chronic pain or discomfort, all can seriously impact your quality of life.
Men are so damn privileged they can’t even imagine female bodies have different healthcare needs than theirs and that our healthcare needs are important even if they can’t be affected by one of these conditions.
Endometriosis causes excruciating pain and is a leading cause of infertility. Thrush is extremely
uncomfortable, and expensive to treat repeatedly; over-the-counter preparations rarely completely eradicate it. Menorrhagia, which I
have, makes you anæmic. PCOS causes hormonal symptoms that are socially
difficult (facial hair, acne, hair loss, weight gain). Fibroids are so common, and are often treated with a hysterectomy.Add in fibromylgia, which affects 8x as many women as men, as well as lupus (and almost any other autoimmune condition), systemic exertion intolerance disorder (SEID), iron deficiency anæmia (all of which affect more women than men), and you have well over 25% of childbearing-age women globally living with chronic pain and tiredness.
Chronic pain is overwhelmingly experienced by women, and women are less likely to be taken seriously or given treatment by medical professionals. I went through two years of diagnostics to finally find out I had occipital neuralgia; I felt doubted when I described my pain at every step of the way, but was lucky to have a partner who was persistent in helping me get treatment.
Basically, this is a huge problem, and also one of the reasons I have been considering medical school.
Don’t forget that most pharmaceuticals go to market without ever having been tested on people with a uterus, lest someone get pregnant… seriously that is the whole rationale behind not testing >50% of the population. This has been legislated against in some countries, but still persists in the of majority drug development because of other regulations, and traditions and laziness. The use of a drug is of course monitored in the population after release, but the people “trying” it in this capacity get none of the insurance, close and regular medical examination or monetary benefit of essentially being in a late stage drug trial. Drugs that are pulled from market after release are sometimes done so on the basis that the dosage is just too high for females/afab people and this is, of course, after they’ve experienced the adverse affects.
This is why if you get pregnant your doctor will take you off basically any and all medication you’re taking (including mental health medication, can’t imagine any implications/dire consequences there), not because they know it will have an adverse affect on the foetus but because they have no idea. How wonderfully kind of them to prioritise the health and life of an unborn foetus over that of a living person, let’s just hope they don’t become ill whilst pregnant. How charmingly logical it is that they wouldn’t even bother to test drugs in people with a uterus because it’s all too difficult and gosh, darn what an ethical conundrum we’ve been faced with, let’s just not! Which is so in the spirit of capital S, Science!
Sources: Nature, Nature, Medscape, Biomedcentral.
Indeed, the issue is so severe that, in many cases, folks with uteruses are routinely told that their diseases and disorders are not, in fact, disorders at all, and are just a normal part of having a uterus.
Take menstrual cramps, for example. Everybody knows that cramps are a normal part of menstruation, and that virtually all people who menstruate experience them throughout their lives, right?
Except that’s not right at all.
Yes, it’s true that about two-thirds of individuals who menstruate begin to experience menstrual pain during adolescence, but it’s basically a side effect of puberty, and normally subsides by your late teens. Only about 20-40% of menstruating adults experience menstrual pain on a regular basis – and according to some estimates, as much as 80% of that figure is due to undiagnosed endometriosis or some other underlying medical condition.
Yeah, roll those numbers around in your head: if you’re an adult who experiences menstrual cramps, it’s overwhelmingly likely that your pain is a symptom of some potentially serious medical condition.
And yet we tell folks it’s just a normal thing that everybody has to deal with.
Happens with things that are just more common in women. Auto-immune disorders effect women more than men. Are very common. There’s speculation on causes but why certain people get them and what causes flare ups is unknown. And, of course, no cures.
I found this with anemia. I have been desperately, seriously anemic for decades, but my doctors always waved a hand at it like, “Oh, well, you’re a girl. You’re going to be anemic.” I have heart palpitations. I’ve had blackouts, breathing problems, bowel problems and most days I am so tired I can barely stay awake at work in the afternoon–and the iron pills aren’t having any impact. And, for the first time in my life, I am now on meds for anxiety. All of these symptoms, I have now discovered thanks to a doctor who actually gives a fuck (and he’s male), can be directly traced to anemia. How many women are walking around with this shit, on meds for symptoms of something doctors refuse to treat because it’s “normal?” I am finally being sent for an iron infusion. My doc also sent me to a women’s clinic because he didn’t think the “heavy periods” explanation previous docs have always given for the anemia was good enough. He doesn’t think women should suffer periods like that–at least not without making sure it is not a symptom of something more serious. I cannot tell you what a revelation this is.
i still can’t believe the fact that private homosexual acts weren’t even punishable in england and hadn’t been for a while until the criminal law amendment act of 1885 went into effect at the beginning of 1886 and that the section prohibiting private homosexual acts was really controversial and people referred to it as “the blackmailer’s charter”
and then in 1887 doyle gave us a secretly gay detective and his secretly bisexual boyfriend and sherlock holmes hates blackmailers
Hamilton wrote…the other fifty one!
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