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.
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.