Samantha Bee on "the History of Women's Pain"

For Women’s History Month, comedian Samantha Bee spilled the tea on the treatment of women’s pain throughout history on her show “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” Wednesday on TBS.

The hilarious but all too relatable segment included guest star, Laurie Metcalf, an actress known for her roles on “Roseanne” and more recently “Lady Bird.” In the skit, Metcalf plays a woman seeking treatment for pain in her “lady parts” throughout history, from ancient Greece to the Victorian Era and present day.

In each scene, Metcalf is met with condescension and ignorance, even in today’s medically-educated world.

“This stuff is not that far in the past,” Bee said. “The medical communities indifference to women’s bodies and opinions still affect all kinds of care.”

Bee then reminds the audience that, up until 2010, medical students in Canada were performing pelvic exams on unconscious women who had come in for gynecological surgery without consent.

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