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Women's groups worry Big Tech algorithms suppress words and products related to women's health.

Google, Meta, others accused of blocking health content Algorithms fail to differentiate between content Concerns amid rollback of diversity, rights policies

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

A male colleague was upset he saw a new, wrapped tampon inside another colleagues purse the other day. Like, stopped in his day to complain out loud levels of upset. When he could have just ... moved along or even not peeked inside her purse sitting on her desk.

Of course women are and still will face our very existence being censored. Men are the default, women are "other", and always at the whim of men for just how much they will be allowed to exist in public.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

This goes back to the days of AOL chat rooms, where they shut down forums for breast cancer survivors because they said "breast".

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1995/12/02/america-online-admits-error-in-banning-word-breast/

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes it is because men are encouraged to never outgrow their teenage giggle fits because america was founded by puiritanical shitbags that thought women were inherently sinful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Encouraged by who ? Their mothers (Since children spend most of their time with mothers)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

By "society"? That's what NSFW labels are all about. Even the expression is a nonsense euphemism. (You'd think that any not work related websites would be "nsfw".) Anything to do with the mechanics of human reproduction is taboo. In practice, that's 90% depictions of feminine bodies.

Of course, there is more to it than that. For example, in Germany, until last year, it was illegal to "advertise" abortions. In practice, that meant that doctors were prosecuted for providing information on the web.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Subject hidden for no reasonmenstruation

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Answer: yes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Most definately.