As a puertorrican woman, I am so glad you made this episode because not a lot of people know about this. Its not even taught in school over here, its really hush hush still. I learned it through my family. So thank you for educating people on this.
That statemen pretty much also covers the reason why there is no hormonal birth control pill for men; the sideeffects are deemed too brutal for men to endure.
women’s health as a whole has a terrifying history. modern day gynecology was created by a man who experimented on slaves. it’s just so heartbreaking how many women have suffered in the past and present to have the knowledge we know today about our own bodies
Even then our knowledge is still limited ☹️ I saw a documentary that said most universities don’t even have menopause in basic GP curriculum 😳 and everything thing we know about Menopause treatment is based on false evidence and it’s only in the last 2 years they are learning more about hormones therapy and how to treat menopause.
Makes me cry because Bailey is talking about what happened to the women in my family. This impacts how I feel about doctors, free clinics, government programs…to this day.
I'm puertorrican and both my mother and my grandmother were victims of birth control testing and forced sterilization... I'm happy you are using your platform to educate others on this because people don't know about it
Doctors in general just need to listen better. My female doctor told me to fix spinal curvature by laying down flat on the grown for a couple hours every night 😂
Exactly. Was told that just today when i went to see my dr for severe headaches. "your headache pain can't be that bad. You're on pain meds already." Then asked if I'm exaggerating a little bit.
Having a true crime addiction, being a history nerd, loving makeup and fun hair, and my wardrobe consisting of almost all dark colors means that Bailey videos feel like home.
I’m coming from the opposite direction. I wasn’t a true crime addict, a history nerd, my hair is a wild mess & makeup and myself have a love hate relationship. But, I LOVE Bailey & all of her videos!! I’m fully engaged through every video. Her makeup/hair/voice/storytelling/everything is a perfect storm.
Also, i think its important to talk about how man should be responsible for getting someone pregnant too. A man birth control its been delayed for decades, even when it could be safer and easier (no hormonal). If the fight its for equality, woman shouldn’t be the only ones responsible for avoiding pregnancy.
As a Puertorican I'm glad you are talking about this.... not many people know what United States government does to my people! Yes, it is upsetting, but more people need to know the truth and I am very thankful that you decided to spread the word! I love you Bailey!❤🇵🇷❤
I am with you Puertorican sister I'm so glad that some like Bailey that has so much influence is talking about this and letting people know what's been going on for hundred thousand years or so and is still happening today Thank you Bailey ❤️ 🇵🇷
Henrietta Lacks story is amazing. Her cells have saved women through this world. Science labs still use her cells. My heart goes out to her severe suffering with uterine cancer and the horrible medical treatment she received at John Hopkins hospital.
They wrote a book about her and her ordeal, the unfortunate treatment of her, interviews of her present day family and their fight for recognition for the contribution she made to medicine. And it was a BIG ONE! AN EXCELLENT BOOK! "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" Rebecca Skloot A MUST READ!
As a Puerto Rican woman currently living on the island this story is very hard to me. In school they did NOT educate us about this horrible history. This has opened my mind and shook me to my core!
Que bueno que ahora sabes este pedazo horrible de nuestra historia como colonia de los estados unidos. En youtube está La Operación (documental) completo. Tienes que verlo ♡
There is so much history of Puerto Rico that was never taught in general. Maybe time to do your own research & learn your own history & culture on our own. Not by a third party. There are some great books on it all as well! 🇵🇷
My fiancé is from Puerto Rico. His abuela, Aracelis, was one of the victims of this evil. He got really emotional when I told him about this episode because it affected his family, and the island as a whole, so deeply. We’re gonna watch it later tonight, but he just wanted to say thank you from a proud Boricua. ♥️🇵🇷♥️
@@pixiebabe9381 can't and that's for sure they can't even hurt any of us hispanics/latins including indigenous people as well because we all count. -Mercy(sorry for the name confusion i am on my dad's phone at the moment)
I'm Boricua and I'm in tears right now watching this. My grandmother went through this trials. The women of my family are still suffering the side effects. Bailey made me so emotional and proud right now
Bailey, I am a history major literally one class away from a bachelor’s and I cannot explain how much I love these videos! They are so well informed and the fact that you are drawing from scholarly articles?! AND you cite them?? It’s wonderful!
bailey is the blueprint for every history teacher to follow from here on out, the next gen deserves to be informed in such an entertaining and easy to follow manner. like SERIOUSLY.
I’m Puerto Rican and during my general studies education I did a research paper on this subject, and I was livid to say the least. Afterwards I understood why all of the older women in my family were sterilized in their youth. My grandmother wasn’t given a choice she was just told that it was best for her. It’s all so f**cked up 🤬
Thank you for sharing this!!! In Puerto Rico this is like a terror story that is never told, is not even taught at school. Thank you for educating about this matter, as a Puertorrican woman, I appreciate it. BTW! This is not the only thing we have been used to test, this subject is a whole rabbit hole
Bailey is like gossip girl but historian version, uncovering all that dirt on people 😂😂😂💔 Jokes aside I admire that she's educating people in a fun and engaging way ^^
On the topic of women’s health, can you talk about all of the side effects of hormonal birth control on the brain, and how drs tend to gas light the symptoms away? Everyone is only concerned about physical symptoms, but very few talk about the psychological symptoms it can produce.
Its sickening and I feel helpless sometimes turning away people because they have no insurance or other forms of payments is getting to me especially during these times always wanted to be a nurse and now I'm rethinking my whole career path mentally drained😔🥺
I never thought my homeland would be in dark history. I did a presentation on this topic on my first year of my bachelor's degree. And the thing is, this isn't the only experimentation they have done on us.
Bailey, never get down on yourself for being uninformed. It's not a reflection on your intelligence, but on the way things get covered up. You're obviously curious and bright and open to learning, and that is such an important thing. I love how you research things and explain them. You're a pretty smart cookie!
This show is completely scripted by writing crew not including bailey unfortunately she's not as smart and curious, just an aspiring actress working her way up...
@@shariahmetzger2786 Even though the podcast is new and made by a team of people (including Bailey), her youtube-series has been on for years at this point and has been incredible from the very beginning. Please take your negativity elsewhere.
@@shariahmetzger2786 It is obvious that Ms Sarian is not a standard university educated media personality and that is what is so refreshing about her. Are you aware that many artworks considered to be masterpieces, such as The Last Supper and many other old school historical and religious paintings were done collaboratively ? Think about the size of those paintings and understand that many hands were involved. Many shows on You Tube are scripted; it is much harder than you might think to speak on a topic for even 20 minutes extemporaneously. Even as a very well educated and literate person I can attest to that - nerves for a start! Bailey Sarian has come from nowhere and has built up a following which she is now using to highlight issues which are dear to her heart and she is now a very successful You Tube personality who attracts sponsorship deals and designs and sells her own merchandise. She has collaborated with cosmetic firms in promoting her own range of nail polish and other sponsorship deals. I am a much older lady and am very impressed with this young woman's drive and style - there are plenty of other more polished media personalities but personally I find the corporate bottle blondes on tv quite boring. Most tv companies are still run by male executives, which is possibly why you won't see a frank discussion of contraception or any other issues exclusively affecting women on tv. Women never seem to support other women.
The Dark History of Psychology and Psychiatry would be a great episode, especially how many women were locked away for “hysteria” during menopause and even during their menstrual cycle not to mention not “obeying” their husbands or even promiscuity 🤦🏻♀️
Yup i read up on that. Insane. Or even if you had issues like being born deaf in one ear but consider insane.. only to learn decades later all those people needed were hearing aids .. not electric shock therapy
Don’t forget, when a woman aged and got “boring” , because a divorce was frowned upon, the woman would magically go crazy and be institutionalised. All of a sudden dipshiet has a new, young wife that would probably end up the same as previous one.
I would really love to hear a Dark History on the Tuskagee Study - A horribly racist study on untreated syphilis in the black community in the 1930s. It is awful and insane what happened. Love your Dark History series!
You should do a dark history of gynaecology, like how they experimented on black women without anaesthesia and said that they didn’t feel pain, and that’s how the speculum was invented (no wonder it’s so uncomfortable) and how women have worse healthcare treatment and outcomes, and how black women have even worse treatment and outcomes.
Yes this was so horrible! I only learned about it through a women’s health class in college. Black people were given syphillis to be test subjects as well
Anytime I heard old Margaret's name I would get upset. That lady was something else.😒 There's a reason there are more Planned Parenthood clinics in poor/ minority neighborhoods.
Statistically though... poor people and the under educated have more kids. Not saying it implying anything other than those numbers are just true. That said, numbers alone don't hurt anyone. It's the conclusions people then draw or how they use them for manipulative efforts and fear tactics that causes the fear/harm.
Bailey talking about Puerto Rico and our history, and how messed up it is makes me happy because then people can take a new perspective as to how the USA has messed with us for so long!
Tuskegee, native American sterilization, Chinese american sterilization, Puerto Rican sterilization. And so many other messed up projects...but hey-lets put the US government in charge of our health system...
I’m from Puerto Rico & didn’t even know this (mostly bc I live under a rock) but I’m glad you’re shedding some light & truth to everyone about this. I’m certain now that this isn’t the only time US Government has done experiments in our land, I’m very curious about what else has happened that I’m not even aware of… Thanks Bailey!
Is taboo in our culture. But you learn it at college/university in humanities classes...some local (P.R.) news have make documental episodes about this in our history since our colonization by USA.
wow, I can’t really remember if they taught us anything about this in college but Bailey’s way of telling us makes things 1000x better, fun, and more easy to understand.
Yes! And it's the instant answer for any off feeling/symtom women have. Painful period? *birth control pill. Acne? *birth control pill. Migraines, heavy bleeding, unscheduled period, low libido.... * birth control pill. Never investigate the undelying cause. Ugh.
It doesn't just effect moods. It literally effects the brain. Besides tricking the body into thinking it pregnant, so that it doesn't get pregnant, it messes with how your brain works. Say a teenager gets pregnant. The way they think changes. If you've ever known someone who was pregnant and their personality changed while they were, that's the hormones. Inducing that chemically to teen girls, who are already learning to navigate their hormonal changes and the emotions that brings, tricking their body into thinking it's pregnant is worse. Put a teen on birth control that they end up taking for years or decades and their brain is a pregnant teenager for that time and doesn't mature the way it's supposed to. So many many women are walking around with teen pregnancy brain and don't even realize it. And women, because I'm not sure about men, but women's brains aren't fully mature until age 25.
@@sueconklin9175 I'll say that it helped me with painful periods and heavy bleeding (this was a major issue). I ended up having surgery for a fibroid tumor. But birth control pills can cause migraines and other issues like high blood pressure. I don't take it anymore because things got better with my surgery.
I hate how dismissive doctors about women problems, so many women with endometriosis and severe pain during their periods were told they're exaggerating when it was simply not the case, it's always insinuated in medical school that women's pain is not important or it can't be that bad they're just being emotional you know women being women and I hate every bit of this micro misogyny
YESSSS SOMEONE IS FINALLY TALKING ABOUT THIS!!! I’m Puerto Rican and my grandmother would tell me about it and I just couldn’t believe we were used like that. I and mainly people in my family still suffer from infertility.
I am so horrified and so sorry to hear this...was the infertility passed on genetically due to these birth control medications? Just listening to this story gave me goosebumps and brought tears to my eyes because of how people were used and abused in the most horrific ways, as if they didnt matter in this world. Sending a prayer your way for your health and peace.
@@houseki4085 I’m not sure if it was, but a lot of people think it is. There are also many special needs and autistic I’ve met on the island and within my own family (from there).
She also founded Planned Parenthood with the mission to eradicate the black community by marketing abortion towards black women. Planned Parenthood still disproportionately targets black women for abortions and nearly half of the black population has been eradicated due to abortion.
I TOTALLY LOVED that you are bringing this up. I am from Arecibo my uncle was a nurse at that time and he told me all those scary stories. Puertorrican woman became guinea pigs. The birth defects were rampant afterwards on the child of the Moms who took it.
A Great Aunt of mine was in those trials, she’s a monster for sure, everyone forgets this history of the birth control and how Boricuas are taken advantage of still
On the flip side nothing gets approved for man unless it benefits women, because it's about efficiency, benefiting most parties, not ignorance, but lets just pretend otherwise.
As a Urology nurse for 17 years I assisted with hundreds of vasectomies. How easy! Men should get one! Not open abdominal surgery, on their feet in a couple of days. 48 hours with full control of the remote...what's the downside? It's also reversible.
My husband refused even though he’s a doctor and fully understood the simplicity of a vasectomy vs a tubal ligation. He was just as stubborn about other issues and we’re no longer together.
I would love to hear a dark history on the Radium Girls…little known story on how girls were basically made to inject radioactive materials in factories
Or on the Quaker Oats company and U.S government working together to feed mentally disabled children radioactive oatmeal in the 1950s. Without the children or their parent's knowledge.
I think you mean ingest. They were consuming it not injecting it. I'm assuming you already know that and this was just a typo. Have you seen the movie?
This entire thing is a singular story of endless things done in the name of imperialism to colonized people. As a Puerto Rican woman, I am so so so happy to hear you talk about this.
I really appreciate when people try to educate themselves and learn something new however, I'm also amazed at the amount of information that people have just no clue about. Education is so important.
It’s happening now with the Covid-19 vaccine and the treatment they have in hospitals. It’s actually all experimental. I had pretty horrible side effects when I was hospitalized with Covid-19 pneumonia and they gave me Veklury through IV. When I told my Doctor my side effects they didn’t had answers. & I can’t believe that I was a lab rat and still am for the CDC and OMS.
@@gabydiaz9151 and why are you complaining they helped you they gave you a antiviral med to help you so the side effects could possibly be eased and if it was a long time ago you had it they probably just didn’t have enough research to tell you and maybe stop being so ignorant take the vaccine to help the world so no one else gets it like you had
I'm a desendant / family member of some of the women in the trial. I've also done some research on the topic. Some extra information: (1) the trial continued after the pill was released because they couldn't get the dosages correct. They're was very little oversight on the program, which in it of itself is terrifying, understand these women were US citizens and were supposed to be under the care of the FDA. There is some evidence that suggests that they used double the dosages deemed safe for human trials because of racist beliefs that women of color could handle more medication or that our bodies were genetically different (this is also true of the understanding of women's body's in general & we still have issues with dosages today). (2) Puerto Rican women died during the trial most likely caused by the pill (these were otherwise healthy young women), because most of these women were extremely poor it was common practice to bury their bodies in communal burial plots (essentially unmarked graves, my father told me stories of seeing that type of burial & it is horrifying), exhumimg their bodies after burial would be nearly impossible and getting an autopsy was unheard of in these communities. This was by design by the people running the trials. (3) because Puerto Rico is a commonwealth we don't have control over all of our politics (some were/ are appointed by the US) even those elected tend to have connections & it is common for corruption on the local level. At the time the US military was testing military weapons in the island and it was common practice for companies to test products on the island and it's people. Not to mention huge tax incentives & minimal oversight. No one was looking out for the befit of the local population and we are still dealing with the 'fallout'.
Thank you for speaking out! They've done this in African countries and in countries and communities of color. Disgusting and horrible. In my opinion that is why minority and communities of color have internal trauma and brokenness that is unique to them that they have to fight through to not look through the lens through the lens of life.
Puerto Rico was/is abused horribly. But it seems a theme in US history for American governance to allow and even encourage the misuse of minorities, the disabled, the poor, and female.
Thank you, Bailey, for having the courage to speak the Truth. So many follow blindly without any thought to the intentions of those who push their agendas onto others. Keep on being you, always. You are appreciated!
This is sadly so common historically with people of color being used in the medical field without informed consent. Henrietta Lacks, Tuskegee, there are so many examples! Thank you for speaking on these matters. 🖤
Yes. She should do the Tuskegee experiment. It was so disgusting and people don't even know the 1/2 of it. I knew about Rosewood but she went into a lot deeper detail.
Or how Gynecology at it's core begining is horrible and James Marion Sims "father of modern gynaecology torture black women by practicing C-sections on them with no anesthesia or medication.
Can you please do a dark history of Puerto Rico?!? Puerto Rico is a colony and we need as many people to understand and help fight the oppression that keeps Puerto Rican’s suffering. TY!
My mother literally died from her birth control. She formed tons of blood clots in her lungs and suddenly collapsed one day, she was only 34 years old.
Ppl aren’t even aware that their blood clots, cancers(plural) blindness is caused by them using birth control maybe as teens for acne...it’s horrifying. Esp when learning the truth abt the male FDA approved bc pill in the early 2000... 🤢
@@miracraigfan1738 I had a blood clot in my lung 2 years ago.. went to the hospital for something else and they discovered it and a problem with my heart.. I got lucky it was caught and treated ..
Please do a Dark History on Gynecologist Dr.J Marion Sims. He experimented on enslaved women without anesthesia. I was HORRIFIED what he did. Such a sad dark moment in history.
I believe he also did surgical experiments on enslaved children as well... Its absolutely terrible how he used these woman and children as guineapigs because of his notion that "they (enslaved persons) could not feel pain😞. Absolutely disgusting
But does she look it up? Or does she have people behind the scenes with her? This set-up, the decor and props.. It looks like she's not just doing it from her apt/residence anymore. Could be wrong though!
@@Oldyamyamgembo i think shes trying to point out that some of this might not be bailey's search history but one of her crews. That being said, seeing the research progress between her or her crew would be cool.
I was prescribed a pill that MESSED ME UP. My emotions were out of control and I was so depressed that I became seriously suicidal. My doctor told me I was being dramatic and said I wasn’t using it right. I felt so hopeless that I just stopped taking it. I was back to normal like two weeks later. I hate to imaging what those poor women went though...
I went through the exact same thing as you! And so did my sister and a few friends. In the end I just stopped taking it without “approval” from my doctor, who just wanted me to keep switching to other pills. I stopped going there altogheter. Why is it so common for doctors to not take girls and women seriously? We don’t go to the doctors for fun or attention, we want to be helped! Edit: and I felt myself become more ‘me’ with each day i didn’t take the pill :) i think the pill is junk for the most part, though it can also help
I was given a pill to help with my Asthma and one of the side affects was increased anxiety. Had a freak out a few days after taking it, and my dr took me off it.
Native american women were also forcibly sterilized / coerced into the 90s. My grandma was after she had two kids. They tried to sterilize my mom in the late 70s trying to tell her there was something wrong with her, but she refused. She's fine. I wouldn't be here if she believed them.
Yes and for those children who were born anyway, there was the 60's scoop and prior to that, boarding schools. Anything to remove Native children from their "savage" parents and erase their culture.
Same with my grandmother, after 5 children, she wanted 2 more. Ever since, she’s been adopting children in need of a home. I’m the first she adopted and I’m 24, and the youngest is 8 years old. She raised more then 15 children, relatives or not. I’m proud to say I have many brothers and sisters.
Bailey is amazing. The way she talks, her looks, voice, the way she does her research… I think she is a rising star and will shine not only on UA-cam. I enjoy her videos so much!
Thank you beautiful angel for covering this 🥺💞SHOUTOUT TO THOSE STRONG PUERTORRICAN WOMEN , QUEEN'S THEMSELVES . I can't believe they and so many other women had to go through so much bs
I have been talking to my U.S. friends and coworkers about this for YEARS. As a Puerto Rican woman, I'm over the moon that you covered this topic! You did an amazing job explaining everything, thank you! 🥰
a topic I would like to hear Bailey talk about is the very dark history of how and why developmentally disabled people were forced to live in institutions and the vile conditions they had to endure.
They did research into a male “pill” but the side effects were “too savvier” for the male population to handle… they were the exact same as what women experience.. mood swings, weight gain etc
It was FDA approved, worked better than it’s female counterpart, & had abt 10 side effects, compared to 70side-effects in women(& 10 are deadly or highly debilitating, 4 of which are cancer). They are trying to erase this story by claiming they’re currently testing male birth controls for the 1st time! And the guy who made the fm birthcontrol claims he was stopped by CIA to make a male Birthcontrol (& that it would exist already in the 70s vs early 2000 for the FDA approved one, he also claimed that women was afraid that a male Birthcontrol would take away when women decide to get pregnant...it’s pretty ironic).
idk abu but i saw a recent study with a birth control for guys, and most guys had worse symptoms, some lost fertility, someone died. but we still have vasectomies.
@@sage9996 those are all risks woman have PLUS some. So it's ok for us to put our lives on the line & to risk infertility but not them?? My sister is dealing with infertility from BC because she waited until she was 30 to have a child... That's ok though according to you...
I’m digging this spelling of the word severe. Liiiike - “Were my recommendations too severe for you?.... or were they savvier(/too much more savvy than yooour ideas for you to handle)? And yeah, the male birth control was way savvier and they just couldn’t handle it 😂
I'd love to see Bailey cover the crimes against indigenous women of the US. Tons of my female family members could tell you horror stories about how they sterilized women on the reservations without their knowledge. There's some serious horror stories out there and a lot of people don't want to acknowledge it or just don't know about it.
Sadly many women and children on reservations and those of other ethnic and minority groups have been seen as experimental lab rats. I'm glad that we are finally getting the stories and history out there. We have lost to many to these experiments.
Sadly, in Australia in the '80s, my indigenous girlfriend was told she HAD to be given depo provera every year to ensure she didn't have more babies. This did NOT happen to my non indigenous girlfriends
The Depo shot is the worst. Its such a high dose of hormones, and its predominantly give to improvished women. I took it, and it was the worst 5 months of my life.
@@cyanaura4444 , yeah it's sad☹. I know indigenous history isn't really talked about in schools, or at least in my experience considering I just graduated. they always made it seem like Native Americans don't exist in today's society and that they only played as small role in the beginning of American history. I couldn't really say for Canada,but I thought since these school have been open since 1879 and with the majority of them closed by the late 1990s its something that should be brought to people's attention. Since the stripping of culture , abuse,and death of young children were allowed to go on for so long, they truly deserve that justice.
Thank you for talking about the suffering the women of Puerto Rico have went through, everything you said was true about our past and even still we fight without rest to protect our rights and freedom. Te queremos mucho Bailey! 💙🇵🇷
The 60s version of the pill almost killed my mom. HUGE bloodclot. She was in so much pain and the dr told her it was in her head. She went to the ER a few hrs later bc she couldn't breath without excruciating pain. ER doc said the bloodclot was right next to her lung snd the size of a grapefruit. She would have died within hrs. She was a poor immigrant from Sicily. Scary stuff.
This sounds so scary and it makes me so mad when doctors (especially male docs) dismiss women when they tell you how they feel about their own bodies. Glad they were able to help your mum out in time.
Please talk about the dark history of cell phones and the recourses that are being stolen from Africa. Or the dark history of France and how they are still forcing 14 African countries to pay Colonial tax. Looooove you girl !! You keep me so entertained!!!!Blessings upon you from your head down to your toes 💕💕💕
The cell phone and electronics is so messed up. People get left in the mines when they collapse They're taking resources from Mongolia too and it's contaminating the air quality and water supply. And the people mining the minerals are worked so hard and not paid fairly.
There is a PBS documentary called The Pill. I watched it years ago. Those Puerto Rican women who died due to the high dose never got justice and nobody went to jail.
They actually created a men’s birth control pill in recent years, and it was safer and had fewer side effects than the women’s version. But the men in the trial were such weenies about the side effects (which, again, weren’t as severe as the side effects women experience from the pill) that they decided that men would never take it, and the project was abandoned.
Lol the side effects probably aren't even as bad as the side effects of a typical menstrual cycle! Not surprised at all that the men wussed out, they did at the mere mention of when they were talking about the creation of such pills back in the 90s as I remember.
Men will never be motivated enough to take birth control, the stakes are not high enough for them. It's not their body getting wrecked by a pregnancy, they are not the ones who would have to be out of work for it, there are so many men out there who have fathered children they don't even know about and probably around 0 women. They don't need to care and so they won't
I forgot today is my dad's birthday...it's almost 10pm in the UK and he's in his 70s, so he wouldn't appreciate a call now...ugh! I'll have to grovel tomorrow! 😂 Have a great time at your dad's though!! 😂😂😂
When I wanted to stop my birth control because I couldn't recognize my body anymore with all the added hormones, my doctor kept pushing that I try another form or else I'd pregnant. He had zero regard for the health concerns I had.
An episode on Sigman Freud would be perfect for this. the man who began psychology (mostly) but really only wanted to justify being in love with his mother
He also prescribed radiotherapy to induce early menopause on Princess Alice of Battemberg (Queen Elizabeth's mother in law) because of her high libido at the time..... urgh.
I'm so glad this stuff is coming out into the open. I grew up in a Catholic household and this was common knowledge for us, but we were called backwards and anti-women for calling Sanger's racism and the dangers of birth control out.
Native American women were also sterilized (without informed consent or by coercion) around the 70s. Tragic, dark history for sure... Love your channel girl!
Also, anyone who was disabled or was determined to be morally "unfit". A wild time for sure. Eugenics in and of itself is a huge topic with a huge awful history.
Growing up in Puerto Rico, I was never taught anything about the history of BC and how they used us as guinea pigs up until college, when one of my anti establishment professors went off on all the reasons we shouldn’t trust the government (Gotta love that guy). So it means a lot for you to be talking about it.
@@isabellind1292 Very true but they didn’t know there was anything of that much importance to learn about so i don’t blame them for not digging into the history
As a puertorrican woman, I am so glad you made this episode because not a lot of people know about this. Its not even taught in school over here, its really hush hush still. I learned it through my family. So thank you for educating people on this.
! yes ! 👍🏻
“If a man is suffering, only then does change follow.” -Bailey Sarian, 2021
Such a true statement!
That statemen pretty much also covers the reason why there is no hormonal birth control pill for men; the sideeffects are deemed too brutal for men to endure.
especially cis-het white men-
just like why the aids crisis took so long to address, it wasn't taken seriously until straight people got it.
@@LadyAmarra1 only there hasn't been change BECAUSE of the pain they expect so it's kind of the opposite
True!
women’s health as a whole has a terrifying history. modern day gynecology was created by a man who experimented on slaves. it’s just so heartbreaking how many women have suffered in the past and present to have the knowledge we know today about our own bodies
Petition for an episode of dark history about this
Even then our knowledge is still limited ☹️ I saw a documentary that said most universities don’t even have menopause in basic GP curriculum 😳 and everything thing we know about Menopause treatment is based on false evidence and it’s only in the last 2 years they are learning more about hormones therapy and how to treat menopause.
Too many don't want to talk about how the "father" of gynecology experimented on black women/slaves. But what evs😑😑
@@g.molina3269 ah yes and thats when they said black people dont feel pain so no anesthetics smh.
Ironic how to this day men think they’re entitled to an opinion on women’s health & pregnancy. Uneducated men at that.
Makes me cry because Bailey is talking about what happened to the women in my family. This impacts how I feel about doctors, free clinics, government programs…to this day.
The fictional things or those marketed with it?
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I'm puertorrican and both my mother and my grandmother were victims of birth control testing and forced sterilization... I'm happy you are using your platform to educate others on this because people don't know about it
Male doctors telling women "it's all in your head" --- times never change.
Women doctors also tell women "it's all in your head"
yah I am the daughter of a male Ob/Gyn doctor....sad to say I can attest to that :-(
Doctors in general just need to listen better. My female doctor told me to fix spinal curvature by laying down flat on the grown for a couple hours every night 😂
Truth!
Exactly. Was told that just today when i went to see my dr for severe headaches. "your headache pain can't be that bad. You're on pain meds already." Then asked if I'm exaggerating a little bit.
Having a true crime addiction, being a history nerd, loving makeup and fun hair, and my wardrobe consisting of almost all dark colors means that Bailey videos feel like home.
I’m coming from the opposite direction.
I wasn’t a true crime addict, a history nerd, my hair is a wild mess & makeup and myself have a love hate relationship.
But, I LOVE Bailey & all of her videos!!
I’m fully engaged through every video. Her makeup/hair/voice/storytelling/everything is a perfect storm.
It's too bad she can't stop the "sing-song" of story
I get a headache
💯 🦇 🥀
@@punkw7852 you can still sit with us. I'll probably play with your hairwhile we watch, though.
Imagine teachers rolling out that tv cart to play dark history to teach the kids 😅
They might learn more and retain it longer.
Mine would have, fact is fact! 🤣🤣
Also, i think its important to talk about how man should be responsible for getting someone pregnant too. A man birth control its been delayed for decades, even when it could be safer and easier (no hormonal).
If the fight its for equality, woman shouldn’t be the only ones responsible for avoiding pregnancy.
✨PREACH✨
Speaking complete facts
Agree 100 but also i would still ne having borth control pills cuz period pain is awful. But yeah men should tale the responsability too
The thing is, most women (me included) would not trust men to take it every day. If they forget, we're still the ones with a big problem...
Girl this is legit one of the best ideas I've ever heard and dont understand why it's not a thing yet.
As a Puertorican I'm glad you are talking about this.... not many people know what United States government does to my people! Yes, it is upsetting, but more people need to know the truth and I am very thankful that you decided to spread the word! I love you Bailey!❤🇵🇷❤
I’m so sorry for the pain your people have endured…
Mind blowing stuff! Learning in NZ today
Nevermind they used the people of Puerto Rico and the African American people as test subjects for LSD etc etc
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I am with you Puertorican sister I'm so glad that some like Bailey that has so much influence is talking about this and letting people know what's been going on for hundred thousand years or so and is still happening today Thank you Bailey ❤️ 🇵🇷
Women's health historically was a nightmare, the more I learn the more horrified I am
And still kind of is :(
@@hez01 fr
10000%
@@sterlingarcher8041 pp
@@DyslexicMitochondria look into the Tuskegee experiment and never trust your government again.
Henrietta Lacks story is amazing. Her cells have saved women through this world. Science labs still use her cells. My heart goes out to her severe suffering with uterine cancer and the horrible medical treatment she received at John Hopkins hospital.
Saved nothing, made it worse in vaccines . As we are at Dark history better fo down on the rabbit hole about those cells HeLla cells
I was just thinking this. If Bailey hasn’t done a video on Henrietta Lacks, she should. One of the worst and saddest cases in medical history.
@@HadenBlake are you joking? The only way you’re able to conceptualize the story being sad is if it held back advancement? Are you serious?
They wrote a book about her and her ordeal, the unfortunate treatment of her, interviews of her present day family and their fight for recognition for the contribution she made to medicine. And it was a BIG ONE! AN EXCELLENT BOOK!
"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"
Rebecca Skloot
A MUST READ!
As a Puerto Rican woman currently living on the island this story is very hard to me. In school they did NOT educate us about this horrible history. This has opened my mind and shook me to my core!
Que bueno que ahora sabes este pedazo horrible de nuestra historia como colonia de los estados unidos. En youtube está La Operación (documental) completo. Tienes que verlo ♡
Same girl, same.
There is so much history of Puerto Rico that was never taught in general. Maybe time to do your own research & learn your own history & culture on our own. Not by a third party. There are some great books on it all as well! 🇵🇷
Yeah unfortunately our countries don’t tell us the true stories on many things!
Don't ever count on schools to tell your history. I'm black American and I knew of this from a friend. My elders told me MY history
My fiancé is from Puerto Rico. His abuela, Aracelis, was one of the victims of this evil.
He got really emotional when I told him about this episode because it affected his family, and the island as a whole, so deeply. We’re gonna watch it later tonight, but he just wanted to say thank you from a proud Boricua. ♥️🇵🇷♥️
❤️✌🏾
Those whites can hurt us anymore🤣
@@pixiebabe9381 can't and that's for sure they can't even hurt any of us hispanics/latins including indigenous people as well because we all count. -Mercy(sorry for the name confusion i am on my dad's phone at the moment)
I'm Boricua and I'm in tears right now watching this. My grandmother went through this trials. The women of my family are still suffering the side effects. Bailey made me so emotional and proud right now
@@ximar0ckstrx so much love to you friend ❤️
The dark & cruel past of psychology/psychiatry would be a great topic for this podcast.
I love your username and pfp
Yes plz
YES
Phlebotomists !!!
YES!!!!
Bailey, I am a history major literally one class away from a bachelor’s and I cannot explain how much I love these videos! They are so well informed and the fact that you are drawing from scholarly articles?! AND you cite them?? It’s wonderful!
“Adult acne is so rude” that is a mood
i was looking for this comment bahahhaa
Big ol' mood! Lol
It’s SO rude!
bailey is the blueprint for every history teacher to follow from here on out, the next gen deserves to be informed in such an entertaining and easy to follow manner. like SERIOUSLY.
can I get an AMEN!
SO TRUE! This is how my history teacher 10 and 11th grade taught and I still remember those classes well.
fr i love history teachers that actually make it seem like interesting juicy drama😭💀 makes me actually wanna listen
@@paintedlady56 AMEN!!!
You guys do realize this all scripted right? Look at the credits.
I’m Puerto Rican and during my general studies education I did a research paper on this subject, and I was livid to say the least. Afterwards I understood why all of the older women in my family were sterilized in their youth. My grandmother wasn’t given a choice she was just told that it was best for her. It’s all so f**cked up 🤬
😭 that’s so sad
Oh nooo that’s awful 😤😤🤯🤯🤬🤬
Also some sterilizations weren't disclosed to women after having 2-3 children. I'm from PR too 💖
@@ana13594 terrible 🤬🤬😤😤🤬🙏🏻🙏🏻💕💕💕💕
@@ana13594 In United state is the same too. I wanted to do the procedure and they said no
Thank you for sharing this!!! In Puerto Rico this is like a terror story that is never told, is not even taught at school. Thank you for educating about this matter, as a Puertorrican woman, I appreciate it. BTW! This is not the only thing we have been used to test, this subject is a whole rabbit hole
imagine how fun a sleepover with Bailey would be
Im down to participate in one 😂
Nah fr
Yes and the midnight feasts! Yahoooo!😋🍡🥐🍪🥠
😍
FRFR and doing makeup togetherrrr
Bailey is like gossip girl but historian version, uncovering all that dirt on people 😂😂😂💔
Jokes aside I admire that she's educating people in a fun and engaging way ^^
I definitely agree with you. She makes History fun.
I use her videos in my history classes sometimes!!! We love it!
Completely agree.👍 I've subscribed to this channel. I love it.👍
Absolutely agree
Yes yes
Every time Bailey says "nay, nay" her fans gain a year on their lives.
😆😆♥️ love the phrase!
☺️
Oui oui😝
I think I am going to start using that in my classroom... 'nay nay'
So, basically we're immortals?
On the topic of women’s health, can you talk about all of the side effects of hormonal birth control on the brain, and how drs tend to gas light the symptoms away? Everyone is only concerned about physical symptoms, but very few talk about the psychological symptoms it can produce.
I KNOWWWW RIGHT
It was only marketed with, “vaccine.”
The forgotten radium girls would be a great deep dive for dark history!
Yes I second that🙋♀️
Yassssss
agreeeeed!!!
Absolutely!!!
yesssss
“She became a nurse and that’s when she realized how bad the healthcare system is”
Same girl, same.
Me too
Same here.
Same.
Its sickening and I feel helpless sometimes turning away people because they have no insurance or other forms of payments is getting to me especially during these times always wanted to be a nurse and now I'm rethinking my whole career path mentally drained😔🥺
@@brittanycrawl7858 it's sad, that it's the reality..I cannot even imagine what you have to go through. I'm so sorry.. 😔
“Adult acne is honestly so rude”
-Bailey Sarian
I thought acne was a puberty thing
@@hoovesderpy8140 I wished it stopped at puberty. I have the most oily skin ever. 😢
Er e er rr yyeiu@@hoovesderpy8140 fizz z
Supes agree
Fully agree, I didn't get acne as a teen but did when I hit 30 😭😭
I never thought my homeland would be in dark history. I did a presentation on this topic on my first year of my bachelor's degree. And the thing is, this isn't the only experimentation they have done on us.
Bailey, never get down on yourself for being uninformed. It's not a reflection on your intelligence, but on the way things get covered up. You're obviously curious and bright and open to learning, and that is such an important thing. I love how you research things and explain them. You're a pretty smart cookie!
Lol believe me, she's not. Wow, you must think Lindsay Lohan was a great actress.
This show is completely scripted by writing crew not including bailey unfortunately she's not as smart and curious, just an aspiring actress working her way up...
@@shariahmetzger2786 Even though the podcast is new and made by a team of people (including Bailey), her youtube-series has been on for years at this point and has been incredible from the very beginning. Please take your negativity elsewhere.
@@shariahmetzger2786 It is obvious that Ms Sarian is not a standard university educated media personality and that is what is so refreshing about her. Are you aware that many artworks considered to be masterpieces, such as The Last Supper and many other old school historical and religious paintings were done collaboratively ? Think about the size of those paintings and understand that many hands were involved.
Many shows on You Tube are scripted; it is much harder than you might think to speak on a topic for even 20 minutes extemporaneously. Even as a very well educated and literate person I can attest to that - nerves for a start!
Bailey Sarian has come from nowhere and has built up a following which she is now using to highlight issues which are dear to her heart and she is now a very successful You Tube personality who attracts sponsorship deals and designs and sells her own merchandise. She has collaborated with cosmetic firms in promoting her own range of nail polish and other sponsorship deals.
I am a much older lady and am very impressed with this young woman's drive and style - there are plenty of other more polished media personalities but personally I find the corporate bottle blondes on tv quite boring.
Most tv companies are still run by male executives, which is possibly why you won't see a frank discussion of contraception or any other issues exclusively affecting women on tv.
Women never seem to support other women.
Can you do a few on missing people that turned out to be alive and living new lives? It’s super interesting to me
there's whole services for this in some countries
@@lowwastehighmelanin No way:) do you know where I could find any specific cases!
Agreed! Super interesting!
Wish I had the guts to do that!!
This!!!!
I swear, Bailey is teaching me more than I ever learned in my 13 years of school…
Same
Same
Right!!!
Did you sleep through class or something?
And she makes it sound intriguing and mysterious too!
Gynecology has a dark history in general. There was so much racism in research that led to much of modern gynecology and obstetrics.
The Dark History of Psychology and Psychiatry would be a great episode, especially how many women were locked away for “hysteria” during menopause and even during their menstrual cycle not to mention not “obeying” their husbands or even promiscuity 🤦🏻♀️
Layola and Delgado (New Orleans)
Also looking into the history of lobotomies!
Yup i read up on that. Insane. Or even if you had issues like being born deaf in one ear but consider insane.. only to learn decades later all those people needed were hearing aids .. not electric shock therapy
And of homosexuality as well.
Don’t forget, when a woman aged and got “boring” , because a divorce was frowned upon, the woman would magically go crazy and be institutionalised. All of a sudden dipshiet has a new, young wife that would probably end up the same as previous one.
I would really love to hear a Dark History on the Tuskagee Study - A horribly racist study on untreated syphilis in the black community in the 1930s. It is awful and insane what happened. Love your Dark History series!
Ooohhhh yesssss.
i heard about this! it is extremely intresting and id love to see baileys perspective
yes !! i learned about this while getting my psychology degree. it’s insanely unethical and infamous in the psychological world.
I just posted this and then seen your message.
That's Dark alright. One of the darkest in American history.
You should do a dark history of gynaecology, like how they experimented on black women without anaesthesia and said that they didn’t feel pain, and that’s how the speculum was invented (no wonder it’s so uncomfortable) and how women have worse healthcare treatment and outcomes, and how black women have even worse treatment and outcomes.
YES PLEASE.
Yess!!!
Yes this was so horrible! I only learned about it through a women’s health class in college. Black people were given syphillis to be test subjects as well
😔 personal opinion, doctors still don’t care. Look up Hisashi Ouchi. He was in excruciating pain for the sake of experimenting health.
yess!!!!
Anytime I heard old Margaret's name I would get upset. That lady was something else.😒 There's a reason there are more Planned Parenthood clinics in poor/ minority neighborhoods.
Exactly!
She wants to exterminate minorities, she said it herself.
Because poor people cannot afford birth control, and there is help out there for them
@@sherryhudson9075 But why the emphasis on minority neighborhoods?
Statistically though... poor people and the under educated have more kids. Not saying it implying anything other than those numbers are just true. That said, numbers alone don't hurt anyone. It's the conclusions people then draw or how they use them for manipulative efforts and fear tactics that causes the fear/harm.
Bailey's hair game in Dark History is next level! JESUS.
Yess, I think a hair stylist is doing it.
Facts, she looks bomb
My thought every episode!! Hair and make up in this series is GORGEOUS!! It helps she’s already beautiful lol
Right!! I love the looks! Especially the style in her advertisements. T
love her hair!
Bailey talking about Puerto Rico and our history, and how messed up it is makes me happy because then people can take a new perspective as to how the USA has messed with us for so long!
amen,i had to hold my tears on this podcast.
@@alimarpr1110 💗
The us government *
Tuskegee, native American sterilization, Chinese american sterilization, Puerto Rican sterilization. And so many other messed up projects...but hey-lets put the US government in charge of our health system...
Amen!!
Wepa
I’m from Puerto Rico, still live here and this has been talked about in history classes in college NON STOP!
So proud Bailey ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I learned about this in my women's study class in uni but many don't know this and every woman should know about this. Ty Bailey!
I’m from Puerto Rico & didn’t even know this (mostly bc I live under a rock) but I’m glad you’re shedding some light & truth to everyone about this. I’m certain now that this isn’t the only time US Government has done experiments in our land, I’m very curious about what else has happened that I’m not even aware of… Thanks Bailey!
Is taboo in our culture. But you learn it at college/university in humanities classes...some local (P.R.) news have make documental episodes about this in our history since our colonization by USA.
wow, I can’t really remember if they taught us anything about this in college but Bailey’s way of telling us makes things 1000x better, fun, and more easy to understand.
50 years of not knowing what it does, and doctors still don't listen when we say it effects moods, etc.
Yes! And it's the instant answer for any off feeling/symtom women have. Painful period? *birth control pill. Acne? *birth control pill. Migraines, heavy bleeding, unscheduled period, low libido.... * birth control pill. Never investigate the undelying cause. Ugh.
It doesn't just effect moods. It literally effects the brain. Besides tricking the body into thinking it pregnant, so that it doesn't get pregnant, it messes with how your brain works. Say a teenager gets pregnant. The way they think changes. If you've ever known someone who was pregnant and their personality changed while they were, that's the hormones. Inducing that chemically to teen girls, who are already learning to navigate their hormonal changes and the emotions that brings, tricking their body into thinking it's pregnant is worse. Put a teen on birth control that they end up taking for years or decades and their brain is a pregnant teenager for that time and doesn't mature the way it's supposed to. So many many women are walking around with teen pregnancy brain and don't even realize it. And women, because I'm not sure about men, but women's brains aren't fully mature until age 25.
@@vikinggoddess2126 You are 100% correct. I salute you Viking goddess😊
@@sueconklin9175 I'll say that it helped me with painful periods and heavy bleeding (this was a major issue). I ended up having surgery for a fibroid tumor. But birth control pills can cause migraines and other issues like high blood pressure. I don't take it anymore because things got better with my surgery.
I hate how dismissive doctors about women problems, so many women with endometriosis and severe pain during their periods were told they're exaggerating when it was simply not the case, it's always insinuated in medical school that women's pain is not important or it can't be that bad they're just being emotional you know women being women and I hate every bit of this micro misogyny
1. As a Puerto Rican woman I’m highly upset.
2. I’m in love with Bailey’s hair
As a fellow Puerto Rican.. I agree with all your statements
1. As a Aboriginal Woman I’m highly upset with you!
2. I’m in Love with Bailey!
See how similar we all are 🤘🤗
@@c.c.schaeffer8678 why are you upset with these individuals?
@@RetroNewWaveBoy because she’s clearly from the mountains of caucus
as a Puerto RIcan woman I agree
YESSSS SOMEONE IS FINALLY TALKING ABOUT THIS!!! I’m Puerto Rican and my grandmother would tell me about it and I just couldn’t believe we were used like that. I and mainly people in my family still suffer from infertility.
Heartbreaking! Big companies just don't care about the actual people. Just money.
So sorry 💔💔
I struggle with infertility and was born in Puerto Rico.. I wonder.. and so sorry 💔
I am so horrified and so sorry to hear this...was the infertility passed on genetically due to these birth control medications? Just listening to this story gave me goosebumps and brought tears to my eyes because of how people were used and abused in the most horrific ways, as if they didnt matter in this world. Sending a prayer your way for your health and peace.
@@houseki4085 I’m not sure if it was, but a lot of people think it is. There are also many special needs and autistic I’ve met on the island and within my own family (from there).
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I'm just glad Bailey is getting so many sponsors in one video/podcast, I was like 'Yeess sis' get that coin' sh deserves it
bailey talks to us like we're besties, I love it
Bailey: "She spoke at a women of the KKK rally"
Me: ***gasping***
Bailey: "Yeah I know. Shocking."
EXACTLY my reaction! :D
She also founded Planned Parenthood with the mission to eradicate the black community by marketing abortion towards black women. Planned Parenthood still disproportionately targets black women for abortions and nearly half of the black population has been eradicated due to abortion.
@@mikhay144no problem here.
@@mikhay144 If just posting randombibleverses hasn't worked ttil now what makes you think today is the day?
@@beccastell6439 PRAYERSNLUV WWG1WGA ✝️✝️😇😇
I TOTALLY LOVED that you are bringing this up. I am from Arecibo my uncle was a nurse at that time and he told me all those scary stories. Puertorrican woman became guinea pigs. The birth defects were rampant afterwards on the child of the Moms who took it.
Margaret was an OG racist and I’m so happy that people, especially women are waking up to see this. She’s a monster. 🙌🏻
OG?
Jessika Pries ik what she mean by that 💀🤨
A Great Aunt of mine was in those trials, she’s a monster for sure, everyone forgets this history of the birth control and how Boricuas are taken advantage of still
OG=original gangster. (Original racist)
Jan yes she was!
My mom always said that nothing was approved for women unless it benefited men. I thought she was super cynical, as I age I totally get it.
@Lala Grace Your mom is a very wise woman way ahead of her time. Yeah mom!
As my gram always said to me, "don't ever forget Jame, it's a man's world" and I agree with all of you LL adies!
On the flip side nothing gets approved for man unless it benefits women, because it's about efficiency, benefiting most parties, not ignorance, but lets just pretend otherwise.
As a Urology nurse for 17 years I assisted with hundreds of vasectomies. How easy! Men should get one! Not open abdominal surgery, on their feet in a couple of days. 48 hours with full control of the remote...what's the downside? It's also reversible.
That is exact reason we agreed for my husband to have a vasectomy 🙂
My husband refused even though he’s a doctor and fully understood the simplicity of a vasectomy vs a tubal ligation. He was just as stubborn about other issues and we’re no longer together.
@@lindajohnsonkaplan7725 you go girl!! ✨
I would love to hear a dark history on the Radium Girls…little known story on how girls were basically made to inject radioactive materials in factories
Or on the Quaker Oats company and U.S government working together to feed mentally disabled children radioactive oatmeal in the 1950s. Without the children or their parent's knowledge.
Didn’t she already cover the radium girls in one of her Monday episodes?
I think you mean ingest. They were consuming it not injecting it. I'm assuming you already know that and this was just a typo. Have you seen the movie?
@@burgermeowster Geez. This is unbelievable
She just did one
“Racism with less calories. Diet racism” 🤣 she’s so funny, and entertaining.
RIGHT AS SHE SAID THAT, I WAS READING YOUR COMMENT 🤣 Lol
😂😂 me too
For many, many years (roughly 35), I described Episcopalianism as Catholic Light (1/3 the guilt). 😜 Her comment reminds me so much of mine.
Does anyone think 🤔 the Covid vaccine have anything to do with racism? Just wandering
Facts.
This entire thing is a singular story of endless things done in the name of imperialism to colonized people. As a Puerto Rican woman, I am so so so happy to hear you talk about this.
Same!
Same here too
Same here
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Not a very fun fact: During wars, sometimes soldiers would get STDs on purpose to be discharged and sent home
Wow. Not too hard to believe.
Discharged for a discharge?!?
@@r.b.johnson5269 Nice one 😉
Yikes
Some very dark history speaking to that...comfort girls ww2 look that horrible piece of history up!
Would love a dark history on the Stanford prison experiment
no joke
I really appreciate when people try to educate themselves and learn something new however, I'm also amazed at the amount of information that people have just no clue about. Education is so important.
Same... and when u do try to tell others they call you a conspiracy theorist 🙄
@@nomdeplume2213 girl, you took the words right out of my mouth!!
Yeah, education IS important so people can have a clue about “information they have no clue about”
@@nomdeplume2213 many " conspiracies " end up being true....and that's the scary part
@@mikhay144 what evidence for this claim, do you have? Where you there?
The worst thing about this, its still happening in many many parts of the world.
It’s happening now with the Covid-19 vaccine and the treatment they have in hospitals. It’s actually all experimental. I had pretty horrible side effects when I was hospitalized with Covid-19 pneumonia and they gave me Veklury through IV. When I told my Doctor my side effects they didn’t had answers. & I can’t believe that I was a lab rat and still am for the CDC and OMS.
@@gabydiaz9151 how long ago did you have covid
@@gabydiaz9151 I've been up and down this comment section stressing this
@@gabydiaz9151 and why are you complaining they helped you they gave you a antiviral med to help you so the side effects could possibly be eased and if it was a long time ago you had it they probably just didn’t have enough research to tell you and maybe stop being so ignorant take the vaccine to help the world so no one else gets it like you had
@@gabydiaz9151 and ofc it was all experimental they were still studying it
I'm a desendant / family member of some of the women in the trial. I've also done some research on the topic. Some extra information: (1) the trial continued after the pill was released because they couldn't get the dosages correct. They're was very little oversight on the program, which in it of itself is terrifying, understand these women were US citizens and were supposed to be under the care of the FDA. There is some evidence that suggests that they used double the dosages deemed safe for human trials because of racist beliefs that women of color could handle more medication or that our bodies were genetically different (this is also true of the understanding of women's body's in general & we still have issues with dosages today). (2) Puerto Rican women died during the trial most likely caused by the pill (these were otherwise healthy young women), because most of these women were extremely poor it was common practice to bury their bodies in communal burial plots (essentially unmarked graves, my father told me stories of seeing that type of burial & it is horrifying), exhumimg their bodies after burial would be nearly impossible and getting an autopsy was unheard of in these communities. This was by design by the people running the trials. (3) because Puerto Rico is a commonwealth we don't have control over all of our politics (some were/ are appointed by the US) even those elected tend to have connections & it is common for corruption on the local level. At the time the US military was testing military weapons in the island and it was common practice for companies to test products on the island and it's people. Not to mention huge tax incentives & minimal oversight. No one was looking out for the befit of the local population and we are still dealing with the 'fallout'.
It's horrible! Thank you for speaking up ♥️
I already shared the video, lets make it go viral, history should not be forgotten!
Thank you for speaking out! They've done this in African countries and in countries and communities of color. Disgusting and horrible. In my opinion that is why minority and communities of color have internal trauma and brokenness that is unique to them that they have to fight through to not look through the lens through the lens of life.
Wow thank you for this, strong beautiful angel
Puerto Rico was/is abused horribly. But it seems a theme in US history for American governance to allow and even encourage the misuse of minorities, the disabled, the poor, and female.
Thank you, Bailey, for having the courage to speak the Truth. So many follow blindly without any thought to the intentions of those who push their agendas onto others. Keep on being you, always. You are appreciated!
This is sadly so common historically with people of color being used in the medical field without informed consent. Henrietta Lacks, Tuskegee, there are so many examples! Thank you for speaking on these matters. 🖤
Yes. She should do the Tuskegee experiment. It was so disgusting and people don't even know the 1/2 of it. I knew about Rosewood but she went into a lot deeper detail.
Exactly why I'm not getting the jab
Or how Gynecology at it's core begining is horrible and James Marion Sims "father of modern gynaecology torture black women by practicing C-sections on them with no anesthesia or medication.
I highly suggest the book; Medical Apartheid.
Yes. It's barbaric. As well as the mentality I'll and prisoners and prisoners or war!
The way she tells her stories are literally how I used to study for my history exams, just one big gossip session with myself
Bailey!! You are amazing! Love the Dark History Lessons!
I'm so glad you have this on UA-cam cause as a Deaf person it's nice to get access to captioning that doesn't work on Spotify.
Can you please do a dark history of Puerto Rico?!? Puerto Rico is a colony and we need as many people to understand and help fight the oppression that keeps Puerto Rican’s suffering. TY!
My mother literally died from her birth control. She formed tons of blood clots in her lungs and suddenly collapsed one day, she was only 34 years old.
Sorry for your loss 🥺
Ppl aren’t even aware that their blood clots, cancers(plural) blindness is caused by them using birth control maybe as teens for acne...it’s horrifying. Esp when learning the truth abt the male FDA approved bc pill in the early 2000... 🤢
@@miracraigfan1738 I had a blood clot in my lung 2 years ago.. went to the hospital for something else and they discovered it and a problem with my heart.. I got lucky it was caught and treated ..
@@TheJessicahammerly I’m so happy you got the help that u needed & got “lucky” as u said...
Wowwwww that is the reason I cannot take birth control! I had blood clots in my lungs, luckily they found them. Sorry for your loss!
Please do a Dark History on Gynecologist Dr.J Marion Sims. He experimented on enslaved women without anesthesia. I was HORRIFIED what he did. Such a sad dark moment in history.
Yes !! I have not seen it covered much on here 😪
That is HORRIBLE!!! How can people be so awful to each other?
I believe he also did surgical experiments on enslaved children as well... Its absolutely terrible how he used these woman and children as guineapigs because of his notion that "they (enslaved persons) could not feel pain😞. Absolutely disgusting
@@MsKatterna I know. It's unbelieveably uncoscionable.
Wives of KKK members. "That's just racism with fewer calories". You're a treasure Bailey. Keep up the great work!
as a Puertorican woman myself, I want to say thank you for this episode 🇵🇷❤ you truly are my favorite!!
I really wanna see Bailey's search history, it would probably be a whole episode on its own-
Yes!!!!!!!!!
It would be funny to watch bailey show us how she does her research and put a script together I bet it’s a fun thing to see.
But does she look it up? Or does she have people behind the scenes with her? This set-up, the decor and props.. It looks like she's not just doing it from her apt/residence anymore. Could be wrong though!
@@daisybelle2336 even if she has a crew why’s that wrong? So what if she does she isn’t a historian. Think you need to get a grip love.
@@Oldyamyamgembo i think shes trying to point out that some of this might not be bailey's search history but one of her crews. That being said, seeing the research progress between her or her crew would be cool.
I find it hilarious that the podcast is actually called DARK History, but Darling Bailey tries to end it on a happy note 😆 stay you, we love you!
that's why we stan our queen. morbid/weird/awful subject matter but you don't feel as icky when you watch her version bc of her goofy personality.
She’s like a dark cloud with a sunshine personality and it’s adorable. Like she’s amazing
The story is still the dark part of the video, not her. Never
She makes something sick sound sweet and I'm loving it 😍
Oh
I was prescribed a pill that MESSED ME UP. My emotions were out of control and I was so depressed that I became seriously suicidal. My doctor told me I was being dramatic and said I wasn’t using it right. I felt so hopeless that I just stopped taking it. I was back to normal like two weeks later. I hate to imaging what those poor women went though...
I went through the exact same thing as you! And so did my sister and a few friends. In the end I just stopped taking it without “approval” from my doctor, who just wanted me to keep switching to other pills. I stopped going there altogheter. Why is it so common for doctors to not take girls and women seriously? We don’t go to the doctors for fun or attention, we want to be helped!
Edit: and I felt myself become more ‘me’ with each day i didn’t take the pill :) i think the pill is junk for the most part, though it can also help
I was given a pill to help with my Asthma and one of the side affects was increased anxiety. Had a freak out a few days after taking it, and my dr took me off it.
Thank you for talking about this atrocity on Puerto Ricans and our history.
Native american women were also forcibly sterilized / coerced into the 90s. My grandma was after she had two kids. They tried to sterilize my mom in the late 70s trying to tell her there was something wrong with her, but she refused. She's fine. I wouldn't be here if she believed them.
Yes and for those children who were born anyway, there was the 60's scoop and prior to that, boarding schools. Anything to remove Native children from their "savage" parents and erase their culture.
@@jessicawaabooz2663 Yep 5 of my grandparents (2 generations) went to boarding school. My family did manage to avoid the adoption project.
Same with my grandmother, after 5 children, she wanted 2 more.
Ever since, she’s been adopting children in need of a home.
I’m the first she adopted and I’m 24, and the youngest is 8 years old.
She raised more then 15 children, relatives or not.
I’m proud to say I have many brothers and sisters.
@@cwhelshula I'm surprised they survived the boarding schools. The catholic church did the same in Ireland.
Its done wirelessly and has been. Are you someone that can be thought of as a Native American?
Bailey is amazing. The way she talks, her looks, voice, the way she does her research… I think she is a rising star and will shine not only on UA-cam. I enjoy her videos so much!
of course she is! She is so humble and such an amazing person, so down to earth, i love her!!!
Thank you beautiful angel for covering this 🥺💞SHOUTOUT TO THOSE STRONG PUERTORRICAN WOMEN , QUEEN'S THEMSELVES . I can't believe they and so many other women had to go through so much bs
I have been talking to my U.S. friends and coworkers about this for YEARS. As a Puerto Rican woman, I'm over the moon that you covered this topic! You did an amazing job explaining everything, thank you! 🥰
a topic I would like to hear Bailey talk about is the very dark history of how and why developmentally disabled people were forced to live in institutions and the vile conditions they had to endure.
As a Puertorican woman...Thank you for bringing this dark past to the public 🇵🇷
Thank you for not being scared to share the truth & literal dark history on this subject.
My biggest flex is almost knowing Bailey is about to say “nay,nay”😂
My favvvv!!!
@@DyslexicMitochondria Your username made me click on ur profile. Your channeI is a hidden gem bro
Qui qui haha
Same!
They did research into a male “pill” but the side effects were “too savvier” for the male population to handle… they were the exact same as what women experience.. mood swings, weight gain etc
It was FDA approved, worked better than it’s female counterpart, & had abt 10 side effects, compared to 70side-effects in women(& 10 are deadly or highly debilitating, 4 of which are cancer).
They are trying to erase this story by claiming they’re currently testing male birth controls for the 1st time! And the guy who made the fm birthcontrol claims he was stopped by CIA to make a male Birthcontrol (& that it would exist already in the 70s vs early 2000 for the FDA approved one, he also claimed that women was afraid that a male Birthcontrol would take away when women decide to get pregnant...it’s pretty ironic).
idk abu but i saw a recent study with a birth control for guys, and most guys had worse symptoms, some lost fertility, someone died. but we still have vasectomies.
@@sage9996 Women also die, have strokes, go blind, become infertile, develop blood clots from the pill, so it sounds the same.
@@sage9996 those are all risks woman have PLUS some. So it's ok for us to put our lives on the line & to risk infertility but not them?? My sister is dealing with infertility from BC because she waited until she was 30 to have a child... That's ok though according to you...
I’m digging this spelling of the word severe. Liiiike - “Were my recommendations too severe for you?.... or were they savvier(/too much more savvy than yooour ideas for you to handle)? And yeah, the male birth control was way savvier and they just couldn’t handle it 😂
I'd love to see Bailey cover the crimes against indigenous women of the US. Tons of my female family members could tell you horror stories about how they sterilized women on the reservations without their knowledge. There's some serious horror stories out there and a lot of people don't want to acknowledge it or just don't know about it.
Did the same to Afro people in America. 30,000 black women involuntarily sterilized.
Sadly many women and children on reservations and those of other ethnic and minority groups have been seen as experimental lab rats. I'm glad that we are finally getting the stories and history out there. We have lost to many to these experiments.
I was born and raised in Puerto Rico. U.S.A. has done terrible things to us. Thanks for this episode. I love your channel. 😊
Sadly, in Australia in the '80s, my indigenous girlfriend was told she HAD to be given depo provera every year to ensure she didn't have more babies. This did NOT happen to my non indigenous girlfriends
The Depo shot is the worst. Its such a high dose of hormones, and its predominantly give to improvished women. I took it, and it was the worst 5 months of my life.
Was she able to have kids later on or was it sterilization
Sadly AU has very similar history as the US. Notice how AU is mostly white blondes now? Where did all the natives go?
@@hillary3677 following
@@hillary3677 you’re spot on
I would really love a Dark History of Puerto Rico in general, our story needs to be told loud to the people in the back.
Yes. I know nothing about this.
Absolutely...people need to know about how we've been abused for years.
Yes!
I hope she does an episode
Yes. It was hardly covered in any of the history classes I took.
I would love for you to do a topic on the indigenous residential schools of America/Canada.
Honestly I can’t believe this isn’t talked about as much as it should
@@cyanaura4444 , yeah it's sad☹. I know indigenous history isn't really talked about in schools, or at least in my experience considering I just graduated. they always made it seem like Native Americans don't exist in today's society and that they only played as small role in the beginning of American history. I couldn't really say for Canada,but I thought since these school have been open since 1879 and with the majority of them closed by the late 1990s its something that should be brought to people's attention. Since the stripping of culture , abuse,and death of young children were allowed to go on for so long, they truly deserve that justice.
@@lexieclayton4587 apparently it is because this is not the first time it's been recommended. Also, what is your issue?
Same!
I wish she would have also included the forced sterilization on indigenous woman too in this video :/
This was an interesting dive. I was hoping you would touch on Sanger's connection to Planned Parenthood too.
Thank you for talking about the suffering the women of Puerto Rico have went through, everything you said was true about our past and even still we fight without rest to protect our rights and freedom. Te queremos mucho Bailey! 💙🇵🇷
The 60s version of the pill almost killed my mom. HUGE bloodclot. She was in so much pain and the dr told her it was in her head. She went to the ER a few hrs later bc she couldn't breath without excruciating pain. ER doc said the bloodclot was right next to her lung snd the size of a grapefruit. She would have died within hrs. She was a poor immigrant from Sicily. Scary stuff.
This sounds so scary and it makes me so mad when doctors (especially male docs) dismiss women when they tell you how they feel about their own bodies. Glad they were able to help your mum out in time.
@Jamie Boyett thanks wiki for the cold response to a factual story about my mom when she was a 19 year old non smoker 🙄😒🙄😒😒😒
@Jamie Boyett 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ what a way to be empathic
Please talk about the dark history of cell phones and the recourses that are being stolen from Africa. Or the dark history of France and how they are still forcing 14 African countries to pay Colonial tax. Looooove you girl !! You keep me so entertained!!!!Blessings upon you from your head down to your toes 💕💕💕
yes
This!!
The cell phone and electronics is so messed up. People get left in the mines when they collapse They're taking resources from Mongolia too and it's contaminating the air quality and water supply. And the people mining the minerals are worked so hard and not paid fairly.
@@loryndabenson2118 Dude this makes me so sad I can’t even imagine 😭 I’m sending positive energy to ALL these places ✨
Love the music in the background at the end. I mean this one was repeating, but I love hearing some dim notes while Bailey is talking! So soothing!
There is a PBS documentary called The Pill. I watched it years ago. Those Puerto Rican women who died due to the high dose never got justice and nobody went to jail.
That's sad!
They actually created a men’s birth control pill in recent years, and it was safer and had fewer side effects than the women’s version. But the men in the trial were such weenies about the side effects (which, again, weren’t as severe as the side effects women experience from the pill) that they decided that men would never take it, and the project was abandoned.
Lol the side effects probably aren't even as bad as the side effects of a typical menstrual cycle! Not surprised at all that the men wussed out, they did at the mere mention of when they were talking about the creation of such pills back in the 90s as I remember.
That's not the case at all. I highly recommend not going off of what mysandrists tell you. It was actually just as dangerous if not more so.
How do you know the side affects and how they felt if you were not a man in the trial?
Men will never be motivated enough to take birth control, the stakes are not high enough for them. It's not their body getting wrecked by a pregnancy, they are not the ones who would have to be out of work for it, there are so many men out there who have fathered children they don't even know about and probably around 0 women. They don't need to care and so they won't
Side effect or Size effect???😂
IM SO HAPPY SHE POSTED I FORGOT TODAY IS THURSDAY I NEED TO GET PACKING FOR MY DADS
🤣🤣🤣 you sound like my spirit twin
HAHAH
I forgot today is my dad's birthday...it's almost 10pm in the UK and he's in his 70s, so he wouldn't appreciate a call now...ugh! I'll have to grovel tomorrow! 😂 Have a great time at your dad's though!! 😂😂😂
I’m packing to travel back home 💕
When I wanted to stop my birth control because I couldn't recognize my body anymore with all the added hormones, my doctor kept pushing that I try another form or else I'd pregnant. He had zero regard for the health concerns I had.
they dont really care it's just "normal" side effects no its not if your body tells u stop 🛑 stop
don't take them for there profit not worth it
An episode on Sigman Freud would be perfect for this. the man who began psychology (mostly) but really only wanted to justify being in love with his mother
He also prescribed radiotherapy to induce early menopause on Princess Alice of Battemberg (Queen Elizabeth's mother in law) because of her high libido at the time..... urgh.
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I'm so glad this stuff is coming out into the open. I grew up in a Catholic household and this was common knowledge for us, but we were called backwards and anti-women for calling Sanger's racism and the dangers of birth control out.
I watched this video 2 years ago and now I’m watching it again to help me write my 5 page essay about eugenics and sterilization 🥰thank you
Native American women were also sterilized (without informed consent or by coercion) around the 70s. Tragic, dark history for sure... Love your channel girl!
I’d really love a Dark History on the sterilization of the Native American women in the 70’s
Continuing into today
American eugenics. Began in the 40s on poor white immigrants. Check it out.
Yes...and I love your name, so beautiful.
Also, anyone who was disabled or was determined to be morally "unfit". A wild time for sure. Eugenics in and of itself is a huge topic with a huge awful history.
Yes ! I second this!
Growing up in Puerto Rico, I was never taught anything about the history of BC and how they used us as guinea pigs up until college, when one of my anti establishment professors went off on all the reasons we shouldn’t trust the government (Gotta love that guy). So it means a lot for you to be talking about it.
You don't have to wait to be taught anything, let alone until college to learn about the history of your country.
@@isabellind1292 Very true but they didn’t know there was anything of that much importance to learn about so i don’t blame them for not digging into the history