Trump’s war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women | Arwa Mahdawi

Trust-sud-Trump wants women to “harden”

Donald Trump is a man without medical training. However, this has never prevented the very stable genius from inflicting its disadvantaged health opinions on the rest of us, right? In 2020, for example, Trump memorablely reflected that the injection of disinfectant could help fight the coronavirus – which forced the manufacturer of Dettol and Lysol to publish an urgent statement explaining that it was a very bad idea.

Now, the president, who swore once to be a protector of women “whether he likes it or not,” turned his attention to prenatal care. “Take Tylenol is, Uhhhh, not good,” said Trump on Monday, with his brand eloquence. He was flanked by the Secretary of Health, Robert F Kennedy Jr, the guy who said to the Congress this year that “people should not take medical advice on my part”.

Trump then linked autism to prenatal acetaminophen exposure, which is the active ingredient of Tylenol. If you feel bad during pregnancy, you should “fight like hell” so as not to take Tylenol to relieve your pain, said the president. This essentially means suffering instead: ibuprofen, for example, is generally not recommended after the week 20 of pregnancy.

“If you can’t finish it, if you can’t do it, that’s what you would have to do,” said Trump. “You will take a tylenol, but it will be sparingly. It can be something that is very dangerous for the health of the woman, in other words, a fever which is very, very dangerous and ideally, a decision of a doctor, because I think you should not make it and you should not take it throughout pregnancy.”

Like all that Trump says, this incoherent quote makes no sense. But the main thing here is that the Trump administration is advancing extremely irresponsible advice. There is no evidence of a causal link between acetaminophen and autism and many experts were dismayed by Trump’s statements. Indeed, even the moral vacuum which is JD Vance fell to repeat Trump’s advice, rather urging women to rely on their doctors. And while Trump said there was “no drawbacks” to avoid tylenol, an untreated fever during pregnancy could cause problems for the baby.

Trump’s demand that pregnant women “harden” are also deeply misogynist and a recall of how the pain of women is often poorly understood or ignored. Many studies show that the medical establishment takes the pain of men more seriously. A study in 2022 of the Journal of the American Heart Association, for example, revealed that women who visited emergency services suffering from chest pain awaited 29% more than men to assess.

This sudden fear of Tylenol is also another example of mom’s shame. “We really have a long story of mothers’ blame in this country, and we see it reinforced through the accounts around the causes of autism at the moment,” Martine Lappé, professor of sociology, at NPR.

Women are shameful not to get pregnant or wait “too long” to get pregnant. They are ashamed (and, more and more, criminalized) for having lost a pregnancy. They are ashamed of everything, the size of their baby bump to what they eat during their pregnancy. They are called upon to exercise while expecting – or not to do enough exercise. And if they give birth to a baby who is not valid or neurotypical, it is often said that women are probably because of something they have done. It’s their fault.

While pregnant women are often treated as public properties, pregnant fathers are not treated with the same meticulous examination. In the United States, around 15% of couples have trouble conceiving and, by a chef, more than 50% of the time than a male infertility problem contributes. However, women are traditionally blamed. Indeed, in the 1940s, researchers even applied that the unconscious hatred of women towards their husband was what prevented them from conceiving. We started a bit, but infertility is still widely considered a woman problem.

Studies have also found a link between advanced paternal age and autism. But does society constantly shame men to have children later in life? Of course not. When a 59 -year -old trump engendered Barron, he changed to the press on his virility. “I continue to stay young, right?” I produce children, I stay young, “said Trump at the time.

There are undoubtedly many things motivating this sudden obsession with the Trump administration for tylenol, including the need to distract people from these annoying Epstein files. However, a concern for the health of women is absolutely not at the heart of it. It is rather another way of controlling women; Another way to reduce us to the walking of the uterus rather than to multidimensional human beings. This war against tylenol is also a war against women. Now, if only there was a pill that we could take to help treat this discomfort induced by Maga. In the current state of things, we will all have to harden.

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