I asked whether Yahoo Answers had become a new obgyn clinic. And wow, apparently I'm an insensitive typical male retard. Or maybe the insulters are just highstrung oversensitive typical women. Maybe I'm the oversensitive one for wasting five points and the time it took to write this. I really didn't mean it was a mean spirited question, so whats with the backlash?
2007-05-04 08:00:11 · 15 answers · asked by 47 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
And to whoever said "stay out of the pregnancy section if you don't like it!" remember, these questions show up on the main page. I'm going to start asking about the best way to deal with scrotum funk. (not that I have any). Damn, I should go to bed.
2007-05-04 08:02:23 · update #1
Yeah, that was me that said "stay out of the pregnancy section". If those question appear on the main page, you don't have to read them, you know. Just skip them. As far as your "scrotum funk", I'm sure if you ask that in the Men's Health category, there are plenty of men who can advise you on it. Just like how pregnant women advise each other.
2007-05-04 08:18:24 · answer #1 · answered by Lotus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of women would prefer that their questions not appear on the main page since they're asking questions about their bodies doing such strange things during pregnancy and they'd prefer that the question go straight to the pregnancy section.
Anyhow, as to the backlash...when you take one side of an argument you've basically alienated others to only take the other side of the argument. In my drug and alcohol counseling training we learn that if we take the side of the argument that tells a person how bad drugs are for them, they are forced to argue that drugs aren't as bad as we're making them out to be, which only works to solidify they're desire to use. So you insinuating (well, really basicall stating) that women are using Yahoo! Answers as on OBGYN office, you left them in the position of arguing that that's not the point of their questions.
As far as the "Am I Pregnant" questions, they annoy the heck out of me too. I did a search to see how many times "Am I Pregnant" had been asked on Answers one time and it was close to 200,000.
Anyhow, hope that somehow worked to help you understand why you got such opinionated answers. And just remember, you have the right to ask anything you want, they have the right to answer any way they want (within Community Guidelines of course).
2007-05-04 15:11:45 · answer #2 · answered by Heather Y 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I found Yahoo answers to be a great place to go to hear what other pregnant women were going through, it was nice to know I wasn't the only one having certain symptoms etc... You'll never understand what we are going through during this time, we have so many questions that come up and would be ridiculous to call and ask the doctor all of them, the only women I have in my life had pretty much forgotten what it was like to be pregnant and I found their advice to be old fashioned at best, this was a great place to share info with other women going through the same thing at the same time.
2007-05-04 15:34:41 · answer #3 · answered by krista_focus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I much prefer the advice and expertise of women who have gone through what i am now experiencing, than that of some doctor, who may be a man who will never really understand being pregnant, or a female doc who has never had a baby. And there is also the fact that some questions you just dont want to ask your doctor because of embarrassment and a lot of them treat a pregnant woman like an idiot because she doesnt know some things.
If you dont like the look of a question, there is a simple solution; dont read them.
2007-05-04 15:13:45 · answer #4 · answered by dee 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well... if you see the question and you dont like it, dont answer it! Women have to be able to find out this information. Atleast no one is on here talking about penis pumps and things in mens health, that also pops up on the front page. And yes, we may be typical women, oversensitive and all, but we arent the ones posting about pornography and circle jerks... atleast what we are discussing here is a natural part of life, something your mother did for you.
2007-05-04 15:16:19 · answer #5 · answered by My two cents 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are under the misguided belief that OBs are somehow the best source of information for pregnancy and breastfeeding. Sadly they are not, though I wish that they were.
Sadly obstetrics is the medical specialty with the least amount of evidence based practices. So if you want to find out what little evidence there is you need to do your own research. Asking online is an easy place to start. Why reinvent the wheel if someone has a list of resources where you can start.
And for the silly things pregnant and new moms tend to worry about. Why harrass the doctor to ask if itchy bellies are normal and what to do, when you can ask 1,000,000 pregnant/previously pregnant women.
2007-05-04 15:07:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you were pregnant and experienced all the weird, crazy things we do, you would want to come on to something like yahoo answers and get support from real people in the same situation too.
You could make a comment like that about every single section..what is this a parenting hotline? a counseling service? Everybody has their own reason for coming here. Ours just happens to be we're pregnant.
2007-05-04 15:15:23 · answer #7 · answered by Freaked out 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a tough one to answer, some women feel like this is the only place to go.....or don't know any better....but to be honest. I agree w/ you. I'm 29 weeks pregnant & I'm so tired of seeing questions on here that we should not be answering...am I pregnant. Can you get pregnant if.....I come on here for questions that I can't answer, but I DO NOT believe the answers w/ out verifying w/ my Dr.
I use this as a sounding board to help me ease my mind.
2007-05-04 15:11:36 · answer #8 · answered by Tracy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand what you mean. I get so irritated when I see questions like, "How old am I?" or "am I pregnant?". I usually respond with "I'm not a doctor...go to one." type answers. I know if I were ever silly enough to ask that kind of question, I wouldn't go out and buy nursery furniture because the public at large thinks I'm pregnant...what good would it do until I went to a doctor and had their confirmation?
2007-05-04 15:12:33 · answer #9 · answered by mender_bender2001 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because alot of people out there getting pregnant, shouldn't be. They are too young, irresponsible, and unfortunately ignorant to know if they are pregnant or not and feel less embarrassed to ask a bunch of strangers instead of close family and friends. I agree, take a test!! That's how you will know for sure! And stop having sex if you are not ready!! LOL
2007-05-04 15:22:16 · answer #10 · answered by MD4Christ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋