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The biggest takeaway I got from this book is that women still have a long way to go to being taken seriously. Scratch that. The world has a long way to go to take women seriously. Sexism and misogyny are so ingrained in our culture, that men and women are not believing women when they say "I am sick. I am hurting. I am in pain." I've experienced doctors minimizing my symptoms for 10+ years. It's not just physical pain, though. It's depression, anxiety, sexual assault, and domestic violence. "Men's issues are real and true and matter. Women's are just made up for attention or for sympathy or to convict an innocent man because women are malicious." I mean, isn't that what we're saying when we don't take women seriously? If what they say isn't true, then women are vindictive, angry liars. An entire gender, stereotyped and dismissed, for what? It starts with us. It starts with us looking around at our community and believing what women say. It takes looking inside ourselves and believing what we ourselves have denied because others told us we were wrong. We must no longer tolerate a world of gas-lighting. My pain is real and I speak the truth. Thanks to Michele Hirsch for highlighting many women who speak the truth.