All of a sudden, every ad I get on YouTube is for HRT. I don’t know where to go and what button to press to inform the ad agency that I am the absolute last person on the planet ever to be in the same room with HRT.
When I say this kind of thing, people immediately assume that I judge them for taking HRT. But I judge no one. People have their own situation, physical condition, moral, religious, and political beliefs. And that is completely fine by me. I find incomprehensible the idea that the female body is so immediably broken that it has to be constantly medicated out of its natural state. Other people conceptualize this differently and, once again, it’s fine. I have noticed that nothing creates so much resentment as the suspicion that you might want to separate people from their medication. I don’t want to do that. But I do find it entertaining that, once the algorithm shows you have hit a certain age, it begins to operate under the assumption that you’re a good customer for this medication.
I don’t know if people are aware, but some of these ads state very directly that without HRT you’re going to die. You’re going to have a heart attack, you’re going to go into kidney failure, your children might be adults but they still need you. Since these are social media ads, they never mention the risks or the side effects. The whole thing makes a sad impression.
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