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Aging Alone—Finding Strength and Connection

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Your comment “the patronizing attitude towards women over 50 is insufferable” is puzzling to me. Can you give an example?

I’m 65 and have never felt patronized.

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Wow. That is amazing.

Well, good for you! The fact that you are questioning my experience as a woman just proves my point. Are you male?
Every time I walk into a doctors office, their voice changes. It goes up an octave as if they are speaking to a child. I have to remind them I am a 58 year old woman, not a toddler. If your blunt and express your needs clearly, you're difficult. Any symptom you have is dismissed or written off as whiny woman syndrome. It happens to young women, too. Just the fact that can get a vasectomy referral without any long discussions says it all. Just because you didn't notice medical bias does not mean it does not exist.
https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/how-gender-bias-medicine-has-shaped-womens-health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2022/women-pain-gender-bias-doctors/