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To get an idea of what this album sounds like, take a quick listen to... Ex-Factor.
THE ALBUM
Title: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Release date: August 25, 1998
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Genre: R&B // Neo soul // Hip hop
Mood: Sophisticated, Confident, Refined
Lauryn Hill was 23 years old when The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was released, and it is her debut album. It is also her only album to date.
Lauryn Hill impressively produced much of this album, along with writing and performing it while she was single and pregnant with her first child. Years later, she commented on this in an interview saying, "when some women are pregnant, their hair and their nails grow, but for me, it was my mind and ability to create. I had the desire to write in a capacity that I hadn't done in a while. I don't know if it's a hormonal or emotional thing. [...] I was very in touch with my feelings at the time."
Apple Music contextualizes this album's significance due to the role it played at the time it was released, writing:
To understand the significance of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, it's important to remember what mainstream hip-hop was like in 1998. Materialism and misogyny were rampant, fanned by music videos that presented women as objects or conquests. Hill's first solo album provided a sharp counterpoint by injecting the perspective of a young black woman dealing with identity and sexuality.
Tracklist:
THE ARTIST
Artist: Lauryn Hill
Nationality: American
Previous to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Lauryn Hill had been part of a musical group the Fugees. After some events in Lauryn Hill's life, including a pregnancy, she decided to record this solo album to tell her story.
Lauryn Hill did various work (including but not limited to writing, producing, and music video directing) with hugely successful African-American singers such as Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, and Aretha Franklin.
THE IMPACT
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, staying at that spot for the following three weeks.
At the 41st Annual Grammy Awards, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill earned Lauryn Hill 10 nominations (with five awards won, including Album of the Year), breaking the record of most nominations and awards earned by a woman in one night.
To this day, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is considered to be one of the best hip hop/rap albums of all time. Rolling Stone placed it at #10 (out of 200) and had the following to say about it:
Looking to express herself outside the hugely successful Fugees, 23-year-old Lauryn Hill came through with a feminist hip-hop-soul masterpiece on her 1998 debut. The opening one-two punch still stuns: The anthemic “Lost Ones” moves into the brutal breakup ballad “Ex-Factor.” [...] At 77 minutes long, Miseducation spills over with brilliant (at times contradictory) insights, thrilling melodies, and plenty of moralizing — a righteous blockbuster that redefined every genre it touched.
Many successful artists have cited Lauryn Hill as an inspiration and influence on their music, including Adele, Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Doja Cat, P!nk, Kelly Clarkson, Nicki Minaj, and more.
THE REST
For further reading on the cultural significance of this album, here are two informative articles:
THE CONVERSATION
Doctors will 100% stop or change some types of birth control pills if women are overweight or otherwise higher risk for clots. He knows nothing.
Yep. I literally cannot take estrogenic birth control pills because I have migraines with aura (indicating increased risk of stroke) and a crappy heart that also puts me at an increased risk of stroke.
If I tried to take estrogen my cardiologist would flip out, bless him, he's a good doctor.
These guys are idiots.
Yup. I had chest pains a few years ago and the emergency room doctor wouldn't let me take my birth control pill until the cause was determined (ended up being a complication from a surgery and not a blood clot or heart attack)
The fool still hasn't figured out that literally not a single cell in his body is designed for those hormones.
This is the best response
He needs an old, no bs, made her way through med school as the only female, doesn’t take crap, doctor to say this to him
"take away their hormones"?????!!!! These clowns think women have had "hormones" bestowed upon them by the gods or something?
Utterly idiotic.
He mentioned the risk of bloodclots (overstated)
The arrogance of men to so clearly state that they know more than an actual medical professional.
I'm pretty sure this stunning intellectual was referring to women's natural hormones, but any decent doctor is going to be careful when prescribing oral birth control to any woman with a moderate risk of blood clots.
I mean…women get treatment for hormonal imbalances all the time. They just don’t throw tantrums about it because they value being alive and healthy.
This is just another guy stupidly risking his life and health for the coom.
This isn’t even true. Men are so fucking whiny and entitled
Lol, women can be advised to go off birth control for health reasons in some way cases... Oh wait, he didn't mean hormonal birth control, did he?
Oh. My. God.
How stupid can you be?
A woman’s natural hormones, produced by her body VS a man taking potentially harmful, artificial cross-sex hormones...
Because transwomen are women are women are women, ad nauseam. Reality needs to BE KIND and affirm TIMs’ feelings, or else /s
Indeed, TWAW. Therefore, artificial hormone injections for trans women are clearly virulent transphobia and must be stopped!
Those are the insane TIMs that say that they a biological female but with an "error" apparently that error is being biologically male.
These men are completely absurd. He'd rather just die. "My doctor threatened my hormones by telling me basic side effects of those hormones and that he would have to remove them for my safety."
Then perish.
Is what I'd say to him.
Welp... such are the perils of adopting an "identity" that depends on access to medical and commercial supply chains.
Introspection and self-awareness are politically independent, renewable resources. And they're free of charge and don't even need regular prescription re-approvals! Bwahahaaa!
Men on estrogen are not on hrt. Women go on hrt if they have distressing symptoms from menopause. Even then, women are cautioned about the risks and many women choose not to go on hrt. But if they get a pulmonary embolism, cerebral thrombosis, or lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (ie: a blood clot) they are taken off hrt.
This man's doctor didn't "threaten" to discontinue estrogen because he might get a blood clot. The doctor only told him the estrogen would have to be discontinued if he did get a blood clot.
Is he talking about actual HRT, as opposed to the trans appropriation of that term for their titty skittles? Because when women are prescribed hormone replacement therapy, it's only for a short time and the side-effects and serious risks these drugs pose to human health are emphasised. So yes, if the doctor of a woman on HRT ascertained that the risks such as blood clots were outweighing the benefits of the therapy, they would take her off it.
Uh. Doctors try not to prescribe estrogen to women much any more unless really necessary, and always for the short term.
ya gotta wonder whether part of the motivation is to ensure a steady supply for TIMs.... smdh
Nah, it’s because it is conclusively terrible for you to take long-term. Why that is suddenly ignored when they’re giving it to a dude is unknown.
NOT taking estrogen and progesterone (when you're deficient in it) is terrible. Brittle bones, cognitive decline, sexual dysfunction. (Women get the most cognitive benefit when HRT is begun in perimenopause.)
Why that is suddenly ignored when they’re giving it to a dude is unknown.
" 'gender' 'medicine' " is experimental, without fixed standards of care.
I've come to realize that this is a feature, not a bug.
If there are no defined standards of care, you see, then there are no derelictions/violations of those nonexistent standards—and, therefore, no such thing as malpractice.
Carte blanche, for all the least ethical, least human(e), absolute worst vultures among ghouls.
Constantly shifting sands of "current" "state of the art" treatment is an important tool in their shed.
Even in the rather unlikely event that a sane board or governmental entity takes over this shit show and resolves to mandate clinical trials (from which, the development of standards of care), this will lengthen the duration and viability of the grift. If the treatment du jour is literally du jour, how can a clinical trial mandate even be laid out without being "obsolete" at publication?
I can only imagine the screeching if there were actually to be studies done on the efficacy and safety of cross sex hormones. I think many of these people would prefer to die, rather than have their hormones taken away.
It’s because we are supposed to have those hormones
Because we are female and you are men
Moronic male. Fine, have a stroke then, don't say you weren't warned.
If doctor shopping doesn’t get him what he wants, bro will 100% turn to a shady online pill mill. If he has a stroke, he will blame anything but his own choices. Probably the woeful lack of research into “gender care” caused, naturally, by transphobic cis women who hoard research $$$ the way they do rights.
Or those eevil, murderous Tired-of-Explaining-Reality-to-Fuckwits working in said shady online pill mill that sabotaged HIS order and not all the others they deal with.
It's NEVER the lack of standards, questionable manufacturing or actual quality ingredients in those places and ALWAYS a personal attack against HIM.
An actual woman taking exogenous hormones can have them taken away. Women that have had breast cancer can never have HRT. Women who have had strokes or other issues with clots cannot take many types of birth control. But how exactly would a doctor suggest to take our natural, endogenous hormones away, dude?
360 is low-normal for the ovulatory period, high-normal for early to mid luteal phase, and pathologically high at other times in the menstrual cycle.
If you posted an estradiol level of 360 pg/ml from a blood draw during or shortly after menstruation, you betcha any halfway decent doc will prescribe (or refer to a specialist endocrinologist for) hormonal treatment!
At first probably just arimidex (aromatase inhibitor AKA "anti-estrogen"), which is a $4 rx at costco or $5 at CVS.
If that cheap and universally available drug doesn't re-normalize the labwork, then maybe synthetic LHRH, which mimics the ovaries' signal for "Halt! Who goes there? No more estrogen shall pass!" LHRH analogues are essentially like a Female equivalent of chemical castration—so, chemical spaying i guess?—and thus are not to be prescribed willy nilly.
Out-of-whack estrogen levels (in Women) can lead to a host of symptoms that are not unlike those of PCOS. If prolactin (which can, she should, be assessed from the same blood draw), spikes in estrogen production also HUGELY exacerbate the likelihood of developing metastatic breast cancer, so they are definitely worth treating asap.
Image transcription: r/mtf
My doctor threatened my hormones Mostly a rant, but here we go.
I had an appointment with my doctor after my 3-month lab work on HRT, to go over the effects and whatnot. My levels were at 360pg/mL, so the dosage was being reduced (way too much, but that's another story, you can check my other post).
He mentioned the risk of bloodclots (overstated), and how if that happened "we'd have to take you off of hormones"...
That irked me when I heard it, but I didn't have the words to describe how ridiculous and cruel the idea of taking away a trans woman's hormones is.
If cis women are at risk of blood clot, or even if they have one, they go for preventative measures like exercise, fluids, leg movement & positioning, possibly medication. But never is it even CONSIDERED to take away their hormones, not even on the table. But apparently for trans women they're a fucking "privilege" or something... UGH!
I want a new doctor, this has all been ridiculous.
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That popped out to me immediately as well. He frames medical advice intended to save his life and improve his health as a threat which somehow victimizes him. How ridiculous can these people be? How ignorant and self centered do you have to be, in order to consider legitimate medical advice from a professional, intended to help you, as a threat? They truly try to frame themselves as victims over literally anything.
How... how would they take away hormones?? Hahaha what on Earth. The only way would be to remove the body parts that produce them. Which is an insane solution to something like blood clots. Taking away artificially administered synthetic hormones, however, is a very sensible solution if they're giving you blood clots, for fucks sake.
I wonder how soon we will see TiMs falling victim to strokes and embolisms as a result of their poisoning their bodies
The sad part is even when/if these hormones start backfiring en mass they'll probably still find a way to blame women and/or TERFs particularly for their choice to mutilate themselves. >.>