Ryan Stewart took
to Twitter to get women’s input on how to set up his clinic to best suit them
and make them comfortable. He stated: "I have the opportunity to design my
office from scratch. I’m asking women. How would you design/optimize a visit to
the gynecologist’s office?" Kind and sensitive guy, right, seeking women’s
opinions in such a way?
Nope. Monster. And numerous Twitter users let him
have it.
He subsequently issued a mea culpa, tweeting: “Folks
have [correctly] pointed out that I [incorrectly] said ‘women’
when what I should have said was ‘folks who may need gynecologic care.’ I named
the practice with this in mind @midwestpelvis, but I find that I still have a
lot of internalized/implicit bias.”
Bias towards biological
fact? Internalized reality? The science is settled. Women have uteruses,
men do not. And the definition of gynecology, at least for now, is: “the branch of physiology and
medicine which deals with the functions and diseases specific to women and
girls, especially those affecting the reproductive system.”
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