WEBVTT - IDKMYDE: J Marion Sims

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<v Speaker 1>On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to introduce to you Jay Marion Sims. They

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<v Speaker 1>call him the father of modern gynecology. That man was

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<v Speaker 1>just Satan in scrubs.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know. Maybe I didn't know. I didn't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.

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<v Speaker 1>Jay Marion Sims. He developed life saving medical techniques back

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<v Speaker 1>in the eighteen hundreds, but the way he did it wild.

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<v Speaker 1>He experimented on enslaved black women without anesthesia, like, Hey,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm about to cut you open, all right, but don't worry.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll be fine because you Blacks don't feel pain quite

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<v Speaker 1>like I did. That's literally what he believed, and people

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<v Speaker 1>let him get away with it. Three women have been

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<v Speaker 1>documented Anarca, Lucy, and Betsy, and these three women went

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<v Speaker 1>through hell. Anarca alone had over thirty surgeries, thirty with

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<v Speaker 1>no anesthesia, and Sims called it science. And you know

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<v Speaker 1>what he got for it, a statue in Central Park.

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<v Speaker 1>Like imagine going for a jog and seeing a dude

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<v Speaker 1>being honored for torturing black women. That was a reality

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<v Speaker 1>before twenty eighteen, because in twenty eighteen, activists showed up

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<v Speaker 1>in bloody hospital gowns so that you could visualize these

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<v Speaker 1>atrocities and pretty much said, Nah, the statue's gotta go.

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<v Speaker 1>And guess what they won. The statue got moved to

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<v Speaker 1>a cemetery, and quite honestly, that's where it belongs. Right beside,

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<v Speaker 1>Jay Marion Sims is dead Ethics. Now here's where it

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<v Speaker 1>gets real. You think this was just some old school nonsense, right, Nah,

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<v Speaker 1>those same eracist ideas are still here, lurking in hospitals

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<v Speaker 1>like bad Wi Fi studies showed doctors today still think

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<v Speaker 1>black women feel less pain. That's why black women are

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<v Speaker 1>three times more likely to die from childbirth complications. Three times. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>Karen over there getting extra toleranol for a paper cut.

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<v Speaker 1>Make it make sense? So what do we do? First,

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<v Speaker 1>stop giving shady people statues? But more importantly, we gotta

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<v Speaker 1>listen when people say they're in pain or need help.

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<v Speaker 1>We need to believe them because if Anarca, Lucy and

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<v Speaker 1>Betsy could survive all that, the least we can do

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<v Speaker 1>is make sure that nobody else has to. And I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't