Tylenol Falls Victim to the New Stalinism

By Doug MacDonald

The most striking feature of this week’s big Tylenol smackdown hasn’t yet had the attention it should be getting.

Let’s step back, all of us, men and women. The issue comes down, it seems, to whether women in pregnancy should seek relief from pain and fevers with Tylenol. Two grumpy old men, neither of whom knows even the first thing about the experience of being pregnant, have raised their trumpets. He with the loudest trumpet, Donald Trump by name, said “Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t take it. Fight like hell not to take it . . . tough it out.”

His science whisperer, Kennedy, Jr., the national health commissar, suggested a largely unstudied vitamin B drug instead.

What can be said of this sorry political theater dripping with sexism? These two are giving medical advice to our nation’s women? Men should, I know, be aghast. I can’t even imagine all the words women would attach, although I’ve heard a few that I won’t repeat.

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