“I felt bad that the first place man didn’t have one, so I tried to convince them to blot out the ‘fe’ on ‘female,’ but they said to just keep both trophies. It was pretty funny.”
Yes. Yes, it is. (And they really should have crossed out the “fe” and given it to him.)
There’s apparently also a myth that black people have higher pain threshold (and lower lung capacity, etc.), with similar outcomes, and for similar reasons. This shit apparently even gets taught in medical school and literally built into medical instruments. I can’t believe how fucked up medicine continues to be.
You probably didn’t misunderstand it - a lot of medical misinformation, long after being debunked, continues to be presented as fact.
