Today’s episode is called “The Great Menstrual Lie”, and as ridiculous as that sounds, this was an actual medical debate in the 1800s. Male doctors genuinely believed that periods made women too weak, emotional, and unstable for higher education or real careers. Today, we’re talking about the woman who used real science to shut that argument down. This is the story of Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, the woman who proved that menstruation was never the problem… the pseudoscience was.

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