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[–] DashingLeech 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Well, I agreed with you right up to the "feminist critics" part. The people quoted in the article are:

  • "Adriane Fugh-Berman, associate professor of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and director of PharmedOut, a pharmaceutical marketing watchdog group."

  • "Cynthia Graham, a Canadian psychologist currently working as a professor of sexual and reproductive health at the University of Southampton and a research fellow at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University."

  • "sex therapist Leonore Tiefer, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine"

  • "Caleb Alexander, co-director of the Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and one of six committee members (out of 24) to vote against the drug"

  • "Walid Gellad, associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and co-director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing."

None of these people really qualify as feminists, or at least referring to them in that capacity is irrelevant. They are all medical, pharmacological, or psychological professionals in relevant areas.

Now the story is mostly one-sided without much in the way of counter-points. The sole supporter seems to be Gellad who voted in favour of approval, but he "says he has no regrets about recommending approval of flibanserin but advises women to "try everything" before they use it." and "[I] believe that it should be used by almost no one". So even the "supporter" doesn't support it.

If you specifically mean the reporter, Kazi Stastna, she is a senior news writer and nothing in her portfolio seems to be focused on feminism or feminist issues.

The one-sidedness then doesn't seem to be related to feminism of the reporter or experts, but rather with respect to the dislike for the use of pharmacological solutions in general.