How Women Are Socialised to Live With Pain

Not all pain is considered equal. Period.

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Giving birth is perhaps one of the only occasions in a woman’s life where she is permitted to feel pain. It is universally accepted that childbirth is an abhorrent experience — in the Judeo-Christian worldview, it is literally a punishment from God. Some don’t even survive it.

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