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Donald Trump is a man with no medical training. However, that\u2019s never stopped the very stable genius from inflicting his unhinged health views on the rest of us, has it? Back in 2020, for example, Trump memorably mused that injecting disinfectant could help fight the coronavirus \u2013 which forced the maker of Dettol and Lysol to put out an urgent statement explaining that this was a very bad idea.<\/p>\n
Now the president, who once vowed to be a protector of women \u201cwhether they like it or not\u201d, has turned his attention to prenatal care. \u201cTaking Tylenol is, uhhhh, not good,\u201d Trump said on Monday, with his trademark eloquence. He was flanked by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, the guy who told Congress this year that \u201cpeople shouldn\u2019t take medical advice from me\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump went on to link autism to prenatal exposure to acetaminophen, which is the active ingredient in Tylenol. If you\u2019re feeling poorly while pregnant you should \u201cfight like hell\u201d not to take Tylenol to relieve your pain, the president instructed. Which basically means suffering instead: ibuprofen, for instance, is generally not recommended after week 20 of pregnancy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you can\u2019t tough it out, if you can\u2019t do it, that\u2019s what you\u2019d have to do,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cYou\u2019ll take a Tylenol, but it\u2019ll be very sparingly. Can be something that\u2019s very dangerous to the woman\u2019s health, in other words, a fever that\u2019s very, very dangerous, and ideally, a doctor\u2019s decision, because I think you shouldn\u2019t take it and you shouldn\u2019t take it during the entire pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like everything Trump says, this incoherent quote makes zero sense. But the bottom line here is that the Trump administration is advancing wildly irresponsible guidance. There is no evidence for a causative link between acetaminophen and autism and many experts were aghast at Trump\u2019s statements. Indeed, even the moral vacuum that is JD Vance balked at repeating Trump\u2019s advice, instead urging women to lean on their doctors. And while Trump claimed that there is \u201cno downside\u201d in avoiding Tylenol, an untreated fever during pregnancy could cause problems for the baby.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s demand that pregnant women \u201ctough it out\u201d is also deeply misogynistic and a reminder of how women\u2019s pain is often misunderstood or ignored. Numerous studies show that the medical establishment takes men\u2019s pain more seriously. A 2022 study from the Journal of the American Heart Association, for example, found that women who visited emergency departments with chest pain waited 29% longer than men to be evaluated.<\/p>\n
This sudden Tylenol scare is also yet another example of mom-shaming. \u201c\u200aWe really have a long history of blaming mothers in this country, and we\u2019re seeing that reinforced through the narratives around autism\u2019s causes right now,\u201d Martine Lapp\u00e9, a sociology professor, told NPR.<\/p>\n
Women are shamed for not getting pregnant or waiting \u201ctoo long\u201d to get pregnant. They\u2019re shamed (and, increasingly, criminalized) for losing a pregnancy. They\u2019re shamed for everything from the size of their baby bump to what they eat while they\u2019re pregnant. They\u2019re called out for exercising while expecting \u2013 or not exercising enough. And if they give birth to a baby that isn\u2019t able-bodied or neurotypical, women are often told it\u2019s probably because of something they did. It\u2019s their fault.<\/p>\n
While pregnant women are often treated like public property, expectant fathers are not treated with the same scrutiny. About 15% of couples in the US have trouble conceiving, and, by one count, over 50% of the time a male infertility issue contributes. Yet women are traditionally blamed. Indeed back in the 1940s researchers even posited that women\u2019s unconscious hatred of their husbands was what stopped them from conceiving. We\u2019ve moved on from that a bit, but infertility is still widely thought of as a woman\u2019s problem.<\/p>\n
Studies have also found a link between advanced paternal age and autism. But does society constantly shame men for having kids later in life? Of course not. When a 59-year-old Trump fathered Barron, he crowed to the press about his virility. \u201cI continue to stay young, right? I produce children, I stay young,\u201d said Trump at the time.<\/p>\n
No doubt there are numerous things motivating this sudden Trump administration obsession with Tylenol, including a need to distract people from those pesky Epstein files. However, a concern for women\u2019s health is absolutely not at the heart of it. Rather, this is yet another way to control women; another way to reduce us to walking wombs rather than multidimensional human beings. This war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women. Now, if only there was a pill we could take to help deal with this Maga-induced malaise. As it is, we are all just going to have to tough it out.<\/p>\n
Considering it is common knowledge that Errol Musk fathered at least one child with his former stepdaughter, who was only four years old when he married her mother, these new accusations, reported by the New York Times, are not a huge surprise. Errol, meanwhile, has dismissed the allegations as \u201cnonsense\u201d and \u201crubbish.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kate Evert got into weightlifting when she was 69 after her kids nagged her to go to the gym. Now she\u2019s getting ready to travel from Missouri to Cape Town for the World Masters Powerlifting Championships. There are some excellent videos of her deadlifting in this Guardian piece.<\/p>\n
On Friday the Slovak parliament voted on steps that will lead to the recognition of only two genders, restrict sexuality education, and limit adoption to only married heterosexual couples.<\/p>\n
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