Mammograms. Routinely squeezing boobs between two plates of plexiglass. Find a better way. Imagine if men had to put their balls between two plate and have their nuts painfully squashed every year.

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Mammograms.

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High heels, which after an hour resemble instruments of torture.

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Clothes - hardly any pockets, if they do, it's rare they they a a decent size that actually holds the items in.

Handbags - many are too small and useless for any woman carrying more than 1 card and a little bit of cash.

Seatbelts - they don't fit right because they were designed for breast-less people apparently.

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The IUD was invented by Richard Richter in 1909 and the design was updated by Ernst Gräfenberg.

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Let's be real here: *most* things.

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So this is pretty niche but I'm a fencer and the chest protectors that women are required to wear are shaped like a Barbie's boobs. I wrote a whole article about it which went absolutely viral in fencing spaces. We're working on a redesign but it's very hard to engineer something that works for all people and doesn't cost three times more.

[https://www.wfencing.org/post/the-problem-with-chest-protectors](https://www.wfencing.org/post/the-problem-with-chest-protectors)

The tl:dr is that they don't fit right and they don't scale well for larger people AT ALL (but they also don't scale well for small people). They are required because getting poked in the boobs really hard can give you a lump (not cancer, still bad). In the survey we did afterwards we also learned that they contribute to discomfort and dysmorphia among trans and nonbinary folks, and they lead to stupid comments and sometimes bullying among kids and teens.

Edit: I mean fencing as in the sport in the Olympics where we hit each other with blunted swords. Not the fence in your backyard or the person selling stolen goods on the black market.

Also, there are other styles of chest protectors beyond the barbie boobs but none of them really work for people who aren't very flat-chested. These are detailed in the linked post.

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99% of women's clothing?
(no pockets, waist short enough for an oompa loompah that just gets wider never longer, underwear that scrunch up your a*s regardless of its modest size, pants that create muffin tops, pants that you can't bend your legs in because calf muscles apparently aren't fashionable, coochie splitting "jumpers" where the waist is never long enough, cold shirts with sleeves that track in everything, fragile s****y lacy shirts to be seen in / freeze in, jackets with no pockets, jeans and pants with no pockets, shoes you can't run in).

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Society.

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I'm pretty sure cars? Last I heard, most or all crash tests are used with a male model, but that might've changed semi-recently.

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The whole healthcare system as a concept.

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Underwear, because it nearly never fits. Always rides up. Especially when those high cut 80s things came out there were no proper fitting ones anymore, eventually I found boyleg undies, but they are still different from what they used to make. Plus the double fabric is in the wrong place. Definitely must be designed by men, women wouldn’t do that.

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Tampax (and possibly other brands) tampons. It swells in length instead of getting wider when expanding. It's pushing you in spots nobody wants to ever feel pressure imo, it's just not correct anatomically speaking.

Apparently, many got genuinely sick from using them due to this (I haven't seen any official reports tbf, just reading it up on the internet and some anecdotal evidence) and it's causing pain for others, including me. It hurt like hell, and definitely was not comfortable at all at any point. You just cannot not feel it.

When I lived in the UK, I either had to spend a smaller fortune on buying OB tampons from various sites on the internet or ask someone to bring me some when they were visiting a country that had them, as they're not being sold in the UK. I tried several other brands, including Lidl and drugstores' own brands, and while OB was the best in my opinion, most were not as uncomfortable as Tampax was besides a few. I do apologise for not naming more, but Tampax is the most common as far as I've seen and I've tried so many brands I just can't remember their names.

Edit:typo.

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Tampons in a cardboard applicator.

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Toilet cubicles - never enough room for sanitary bins.

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I bought a last-minute dress for my father-in-law's funeral last week where the top bit was a wraparound with poppers to essentially keep your breasts in. I had to sit there in church praying they wouldn't pop open at possibly the worst occasion imaginable (although my partner said his dad would have actually found that hilarious).

Yeah, men please stop designing women's clothes, thanks.

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Leggings with a seam in the crotch.

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Any female outfit in mmorpg.

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Lab coats.

Totally random, but mine makes me look awful. Like a teletubby. Also, the sleeves are too long in the size that fits me. Have to roll them up. The buttons pop open on the chest and hip every day.

My boyfriend, meanwhile, looks like a pinup.

We finally have custom Rx safety glasses! Where are the custom lab coats?!.

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Not quite what you were looking for but skincare and cosmetics. It was still a largely male dominated industry up until the 90s. In many countries the key decision makers in “big beauty retail” is still men. Men still hold most of the purse strings in the industry people just don’t know it or are too lazy to recognise it.

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The car park ticket machine thingys that you have to get juuuust close enough that you can still reach the machine without your wing mirrors hitting it. Men are simply taller and thus have longer arms whereas us short girlies must suffer. :(.

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Not as much these days, but kitchens. More men cook now than previously, but kitchens are still used more by women, and mostly designed by men. My husband was a good cook, we shared the kitchen. But things I couldn't reach were no problem for him. We both hated the kitchen in this house, (I still do) but we never got around to changing it.

TBH, I don't know how well the average person, any make or model, would do at designing a kitchen. You'd have to build 'em and use 'em to find the flaws, and figure out how to do it better. Things don't always work in practice, as well as they looked on paper. Or in the computer program.

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“Chick cars” that still don’t have anywhere to put your handbag if you have a passenger.

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Birth control.

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