It’s not a procedure, just a fancy adjective for cysts to mean “in the butt crack, tailbone area”.
They could have just said “cyst removal” but I feel there is a bit of cheeky meaning to the fact that it’s specifically about a sore butt; alluding to “men get all the pain meds just for being butt hurt while women struggle to be taken seriously”
A pilonidal cyst is something that people get from spending a prolonged time in a sitting position while rarely laying down straight or standing all the way. It became known during American wars of teh 20th century when service members (generally men at the time) spent hours or days sitting upright in jeeps. However, it is not in any way specific to men. Pores at the bending point, right at the base of the spine/top if the butt stay elongated, and can get clogged. Then there is basically open space behind there where an abscess can build from what is pretty much just a clogged pore. For some reason this is being portrayed as a sexist thing.
This cyst doesn’t have to be specifically male to make the sexism point. But the point would be best made if the procedures were the same or in some way obviously equivalent and the only difference was the gender of the patients. Either way it’s a comic so you have to trust the author that there’s a real basis or you need personal experience of the phenomenon. Which a lot women have. 1
I’m not super on board personally because I have absolutely absymal experience being ignored and mistreated by the medical field, as a cis male. On one hand, that makes me agree, it sucks to be eye-rolled at or dismissed. On the other hand, it makes me feel it’s not all about sexism.
Why explain the one procedure but not the other? I hadn’t heard of either before.
It’s not a procedure, just a fancy adjective for cysts to mean “in the butt crack, tailbone area”.
They could have just said “cyst removal” but I feel there is a bit of cheeky meaning to the fact that it’s specifically about a sore butt; alluding to “men get all the pain meds just for being butt hurt while women struggle to be taken seriously”
I’m also confused why the term wasn’t explained.
A pilonidal cyst is something that people get from spending a prolonged time in a sitting position while rarely laying down straight or standing all the way. It became known during American wars of teh 20th century when service members (generally men at the time) spent hours or days sitting upright in jeeps. However, it is not in any way specific to men. Pores at the bending point, right at the base of the spine/top if the butt stay elongated, and can get clogged. Then there is basically open space behind there where an abscess can build from what is pretty much just a clogged pore. For some reason this is being portrayed as a sexist thing.
This cyst doesn’t have to be specifically male to make the sexism point. But the point would be best made if the procedures were the same or in some way obviously equivalent and the only difference was the gender of the patients. Either way it’s a comic so you have to trust the author that there’s a real basis or you need personal experience of the phenomenon. Which a lot women have. 1
I’m not super on board personally because I have absolutely absymal experience being ignored and mistreated by the medical field, as a cis male. On one hand, that makes me agree, it sucks to be eye-rolled at or dismissed. On the other hand, it makes me feel it’s not all about sexism.