Meanwhile, women's tin-foil hat tendencies incline more often toward exotic diets, purges, holistic health, and so on. "Have you had a bowel movement today, Honey?" In their extreme form, they reach unto anti-vaxer weirdness. Oh, I know men who get into this sort of thing, but it still seems more common among women to me. Why? Maybe it's a Mom sort of thing. Mothers are supposed to take care of their children, and always know what's best for them. So the health obsessions and fads are kind of an assertion of the superior knowledge of Everymom against the bullying of doctors. "How dare those men in white lab coats make me feel inadequate? What do they know?"
In which I offend pretty much everybody
Meanwhile, women's tin-foil hat tendencies incline more often toward exotic diets, purges, holistic health, and so on. "Have you had a bowel movement today, Honey?" In their extreme form, they reach unto anti-vaxer weirdness. Oh, I know men who get into this sort of thing, but it still seems more common among women to me. Why? Maybe it's a Mom sort of thing. Mothers are supposed to take care of their children, and always know what's best for them. So the health obsessions and fads are kind of an assertion of the superior knowledge of Everymom against the bullying of doctors. "How dare those men in white lab coats make me feel inadequate? What do they know?"
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