It’s not the exaggeration that makes it badly written and controversial, it’s using the period question as a stand in for dismissal. Both things can be true: it is a good thing for med pros to ask this question AND doctors routinely discount women’s concerns AND this comic combines the two which is generating lots of discussion here.
So it’s just badly written then
But yea it seems like your interpretation is correct, though the extreme amount of exaggeration in the comic made it less understandable
It’s not the exaggeration that makes it badly written and controversial, it’s using the period question as a stand in for dismissal. Both things can be true: it is a good thing for med pros to ask this question AND doctors routinely discount women’s concerns AND this comic combines the two which is generating lots of discussion here.