>>297905It's not misogyny, just massive scrote ego and conservatism turned into a religion. Take the Golden Square cholera outbreak. In 1854, cholera broke out in a suburb of London that was part of a series of outbreaks that'd already killed upwards of 10,000 people. Dr John Snow talked to locals, took testimonials and data about those afflicted and traced it back to a specific water source. He made a statistical analysis and even went through construction documents to find the flow direction to test water sources further from the contaminated pump. Not only did he provide ironclad numbers and figures, accompanied by the testimonial of a reverend, he even had proof positive in an entire brewery staff without a single case, because the brewery paid them in beer made with sterilised water; the workers returning home without using the nearby water source.
What did the authorities do? Dismiss it out of hand and hound Dr. Snow professional; intentionally sabotaging his attempts to improve medicine by blocking his pioneering work on obstetric anaesthesia. They removed the handle and, shockingly, cholera cases dropped off a cliff, but still that didn't convince them, so they replaced it because politicians felt that taking Snow's advice would indicate that they believed cholera was spread by human shit, which was yucky and ungentlemanly, so couldn't possibly to true. It took a fucking decade of campaigning to finally drill it into their thick skulls that bacteria won't suddenly vanish because it's icky to think about. Snow died of a stroke 4 years later, still being actively mocked by his peers and blocked at every turn from pursuing his drive to improve medicine. It would take a decade before his work was recognised as being of any value, then another 2 decades before it was recognised as revolutionary. All of this because "Well, it's simply not done, sir!".
As an aside, John Snow was part of the Temperance movement, believed alcohol was a poison that turned men into beasts, that the beating of wives and children was a a societal ill that men had to be trained out of and the deprivation of alcohol was just one step, and he most likely died so young because he experimented on himself to ensure his work on sparing women the pain of birth was safe.
