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[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 month ago (20 children)

doctors not taking anything she says seriously, even when her symptoms are obvious

I'm married to a white woman, and she also experiences this, so this might be a gender discrimination problem, rather than (or in addition to) a racial discrimination problem, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I think it's both. It probably starts with gender discrimination (as the medical field highly favors men. Look at the differences in how we are taught about heart attacks for men and women for example) but then on top of that, it adds the racial discrimination.

Black women (and especially queer black women) are among the most discriminated groups sadly

[–] dexa_scantron 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That's why the term "misogynoir" exists. It's both, and they pile on and increase each other.

[–] cuerdo 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

misogynoir

I'm trying to work what kind of film genre that would be.

Probably a mix between 1950s film noir (read: well-dressed white men in fedoras slapping hysterical dames) and 1970s blaxploitation film (read: well-dressed black pimps in capes slapping back-talking street workers).

The fusion of tropes probably means that the women depicted are either given cartoonish-level plot armour to endure the abuse, or, more darkly, never make it past the first scene.

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