I’m at the McGill health clinic, and manage to get myself an appointment with the doctor. After describing my symptoms, he says the cause of my health issues could simply be stress. Then he asks if I’ve been having problems with my boyfriend.

Excuse me? How is this is an appropriate thing to ask? 

Apparently the only thing I could possibly be stressed about, as a young woman, is my relationship with my significant other. Assuming, of course, that I have or want a significant other, and that that significant other is male.

I was fuming!