firstly, the masculanist in me screams that i reply to something miranda said:
1 - the reason so much of our medical knowledge is written by men is because so many women are piss chicken to go out and be real scientists. christ, in this day and age if someone tried to deny you the right to study medicine because you're a woman, you could sue the hell out of them. betcha if you asked for it, a court of law would give you the discriminating bastard's scrotum. the point is, if your teacher doesn't like the male perspective on the vagina, maybe she should stop complaining, put on a lab coat, and go dissect some pussy. **
2 - if women were writing about penises, no one would say a word. an organ's an organ, you don't need one in order to study how it works. i'd also like to point out that humans study animals and plants, despite the fact that most humans are neither mice nor pine trees.
3 - i personally think everything is too medicalized. i admire the tribal african women who go into the wild to give birth, and do so crouching, with no pain at all.
secondly, i am dazzled by the accuracy of the following:
** nothing pisses me off more than when someone says "you're doing physics? wow! that's so great for a girl." fuck no! it's great because it's mother fucking hard, and the average turd on the street couldn't do what i did in my first week of class - be that turd male OR female. HUMANITY BEFORE GENDER!!!