The Fraud of the Menopause
Dr Vernon Coleman
For centuries, since time began, the menopause was treated as the natural phenomenon it is rather than as an illness, which it certainly isn’t. And then the pharmaceutical industry realised that they could make big money out of offering women a remedy for the symptoms which commonly occur during the menopause. Drug companies love `illnesses’ (whether real or manufactured) which are chronic because you can make far more money out of selling a treatment for a disorder which lasts for decades (such as arthritis or asthma) rather than selling a treatment for a disorder which lasts for days and is either cured or leads to death. And so for several decades now I have watched the drug industry successfully promoting the idea that the menopause is an illness which can and should be treated. Evidence showing that their heavily promoted and hugely profitable hormone replacement regimes can cause serious real illnesses such as cancer has been brushed aside by journalists working for newspapers, women’s magazines and television. And celebrities have been queuing up to do interviews promoting the nonsense that the menopause is a disease which must be treated. Finally, early in 2024, the equalities watchdog succumbed to the media hype, became involved and introduced a new employment law which meant that women who are going through the menopause must be treated as though they are disabled and offered the same sort of preferential treatment as people who are paralysed or blind. Without any sense of absurdity (and without bothering Parliament or judges) the watchdog announced that women between the ages of 40 and 60 who have any symptoms of the menopause must be allowed to work from home whenever they want to. To give teeth to the ruling, it was announced that any employer who ignores this new law can be sued. And so when the hospital ward is empty, it will be because the nurses are working from home. When the supermarket shelves are empty, it will be because the women working there are working from home. When there are no buses, it will be because the female bus drivers are working from home. The worst thing about this is that millions of women have allowed themselves to be turned into victims; willingly and permanently indentured to the most corrupt and dangerous industry in the world. Women who had fought for over a century for equal rights are now allowing themselves to be treated as a weaker species, unable to work normally and requiring special treatment for much of their lives. The irony is that many women celebrated the new law about the menopause and, strangely, regarded it as a victory of some kind. In reality, it will price older women out of the jobs market in the same way that women of child bearing age have been made almost unemployable in some areas. (Employers with just a few employees don’t want to lose a hefty proportion of their staff during a pregnancy and the year afterwards – particularly since the law means that they have to keep the job open in case the employee wants to return.) The end result will be that the employable part of the population will be halved and the economy will be devastated. Just how much this is accidental and how much it is deliberate is debatable, of course, though no one is debating it.
Copyright Vernon Coleman May 2024
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