Thread by @CynthiaMN5

When I walk into a medical office with a severe illness, and you don't listen to me, stereotype me because of my weight, belittle me for being middle aged, and give me stupid and crriminal advice, you deny the work women have been doing for thousands of years. 1/n. #feminism

When you don't listen to a human being who has a master's degree in statistics,a master's degree in demography, and who has an excel spreadsheet of her cholesterol since age 35, you are discriminating against that person. As a woman, I prefer to live in the 21st century. 2/n

When you deny me access to good medical care and use all kinds of slurs to discount the validity of my medical concerns, you are discriminating against me. 3/n #feminism #Minnesota #MedicalMalpractice.

Apparently, what I experienced in Minnesota is actually widespread throughout the country. The so-called medical profession in this country discriminates against women, especially poor women, and women who are heavier than the norm required by elites in this country. 4/n

When you treat me like an idiot, you deny the fact that I graduated as valedictorian from my high school, won a prestigious scholarship to a very good college. You deny my cum laude degree from Bryn Mawr. You deny my two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer. 5/n

You deny my experiences as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a very poor African country where there were very few medical people. ( Where there is no doctor). You deny my experience living five hours away from the Peace Corps nurse. You deny my experiences observing my body. 6/n

You deny my experiences getting my master's degree in statistics and learning to chart and examine patterns and anomalies. You deny my skills as a pattern analyst and statistician. #feminism #malpractice 7/n

Minnesota, congratulations on your Democratic victories. Many people will have better lives. But my medical care in Minnesota was horrific, and my health was actively harmed by your "medical professionals". 8/n

I think that I am going to have to move to a state that has always been Democratic, because I am afraid of what will happen to me if Democrats win in this state. I love the Atlantic Ocean, so maybe an East Coast state that has more feminists and medicine islets Victorian. 9/n

I am tired of having people fuck me around. I am tired of pretending that I didn't hear or that I didn't understand. At Bryn Mawr College, I was able to me as smart as I am, and nobody mocked me, envied me or hurt me so their little egos could be protected. 10/n #feminism

There are wonderful things about the Midwest. But I am homesick for the East Coast and a powerful movement and idea called feminism. Apparently the Midwest regressed to the 1840s and the Victorian era and decided to forget the last 150 years. Good luck with that. #feminism 11/n

The last eleven or twelve years have been horrific. I feel like ten years of my life is gone. So I will not be returning to Minnesota for medical care. You have work to do as a state because some of your "medical professionals" do great harm, violating their medical oaths. 12/n

To Representative Ilhan Omar and her squad: I like Ilhan,but she is not being adequately advised or protected. She should have known more about what was happening in her district. Someone close to her is betraying her. She needs better guidance. 13/n

I hope rents on the East Coast north of Virginia aren't too expensive. Maryland is technically south of the Mason-Dixon line, but it has already done much work to heal the deep scar of slavery that keeps us from being a better country. I am tired. Heal yourselves. 14/n

@threadreaderapp Please unroll during your official working hours and have a good Friday evening.