Thread by @_celia_bedelia_

I’m tired of being fed all this bullshit that things are better if they’re “natural.” Birth control, child birth, pain relief...Think about how much crap we’re constantly fed about how everything is so much better if we just ignore modern medicine and do it the “natural” way.

As a cis woman, I am constantly told all the ways that I should deal with my medical shit and it's always: YOU SHOULD BE NATURAL. NATURAL PAIN RELIEF! HORMONE-FREE! DON'T FEED THAT KID FORMULA WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHY WOULD YOU PUT THAT IN YOUR BODY?

It's rooted in misogyny, internalized misogyny, ableism, racism, homophobia, & transphobia. Think of how we talk to marginalized people about healthcare. Think of how YOU talk to marginalized people about their healthcare. STOP telling us our healthcare choices aren't "natural.

Do we ever tell cis men to suck it up and just "deal with it?" when it comes to excruciating pain? In what world would we ever lecture a man to push out an 8-lb fetus out of their dickhole and be sure to do it "naturally?"

In all this talk about BC & the constant claim it's "unnatural," I started thinking about all the things we lecture people (cis & trans women, trans men) about when it comes to their health - and how it's overwhelmingly rooted in the expectation we just "deal with it."

Seriously, think about this - how many times have you been told your pain doesn't matter. How many times have you been asked and judged why you don't just try something "natural" or without meds or without those "nasty hormones?"

it's never-ending.

I dealt with excruciatingly painful and heavy periods for YEARS because I just thought it was normal and I should deal with it. I almost cried when my doctor told me I didn't need to get my period and use my BC to try and skip. IT SHOULD NOT BE LIKE THIS.

You don't have to suffer and you shouldn't just deal with it. If it works for you and you want to - take that medicine. Get that epidural. Take those hormones. Use that formula. DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO FEEL BETTER AND FUCK ANYONE WHO WANTS TO LECTURE YOU THAT IT'S NOT NATURAL.

I want to be very clear on something re: childbirth- I'm not saying anything other than let people do what's best for them & stop shaming them for doing something you wouldn't do. This isn't about the medical community & it's fucked up approach to childbirth.That's another convo.

This is about how these conversations almost always fall to women to be the keeper of all things natural goddess.

I promise y'all I don't need an explanation on why Thing A is better than Thing B. This isn't what this thread is about. This is about how we make people feel for their choices that impact THEM - You don't know what they tried or did before. You don't know their lives. STOP.

Ah yes! What definitely gets left out of the pregnancy coversation is how things “effect the child.” Nope. Never think about that fetus we’re growing and it’s health. Best let a cis dude tell us to do it non-medically and non-pharmaceutically. 😐

Do you think there are people that know that literally just giving birth can “effect the health of the child?”

Got my first "herbs are better for your brain" so