“I would like to take the pill – you are too young to have sex”. “If you’re as stuck with your friend as you are with me, no wonder you’re not having fun.” These two quotes have one thing in common: they are less than 140 characters. Since Wednesday, messages recounting the “medical galleys” of women at their doctor’s, and in particular their gynecologist, have been flourishing on Twitter. As the Express tells it, it was a pharmacy student who launched the #PayeTonUterus movement.
And obviously, women need to tell what happens in the privacy of medical offices. Indeed, the hashtag in question was yesterday one of the five most popular keywords in the French-speaking twittosphere, reports the weekly.
This anthology of macho remarks, totally inappropriate, guilt-inducing, testifies to a little-known reality, the one that many women still experience daily and which seems from another era. The rights to contraception, to a chosen sexuality and therefore in a way the right of women to freely dispose of their bodies, are clearly not yet fully acquired rights. But what these posts on Twitter show is that peer-to-peer relationships between patients and caregivers are not quite a reality yet. The paternalistic doctor has not completely disappeared. The proof on Twitter: “28 years old and you don’t want children? We’re going to check your hormone levels.”
