{"id":18593,"date":"2010-01-05T10:21:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=18593"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:36:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:36:18","slug":"men-have-no-genitals-women-are-genitals-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/05\/men-have-no-genitals-women-are-genitals-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Have No Genitals; Women are Genitals Only"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meg R. was signing up for the University of North Carolina, Wilmington health plan and noticed something interesting about the men’s and women’s health section of the benefits plan<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ll let you peruse and put my snarky comments afterwards:<\/p>\n

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Um, so apparently women do not have hearts or kidneys.\u00a0 They only have targets for sexually transmitted infections and fetuses.\u00a0 While men apparently need care for cancer and diabetes, women get only pap smears and urinary tract infections.\u00a0 Oh, and FYI, if you’re a lady, “There are additional charges over and above the health fee.”\u00a0 It’s amazing that we can even call the same number, given that our bodies are so fundamentally different from one another.<\/p>\n

Wow, just wow.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meg R. was signing up for the University of North Carolina, Wilmington health plan and noticed something interesting about the men’s and women’s health section of the benefits plan.\u00a0 I’ll let you peruse and put my snarky comments afterwards: Um, so apparently women do not have hearts or kidneys.\u00a0 They only have targets for sexually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,55,2091,252],"class_list":["post-18593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-gender","tag-gender-healthmedicine","tag-healthmedicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18593"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60592,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593\/revisions\/60592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}