<P>But is anorexia a female-constant in all cultures? Is it even as prevalent in Europe as it is in the US?
<P>Zoe
<P> <B><I>Tom Parmenter <tompar@world.std.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">|From: Jonathan Walther <KROOGER@DEBIAN.ORG><BR>|Content-Disposition: inline<BR>|Sender: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org<BR>|Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org<BR>|Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:21:25 -0800<BR>|<BR>|<BR>|--vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd<BR>|Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed<BR>|Content-Disposition: inline<BR>|Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable<BR>|<BR>|On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:32:27PM -0800, Zoe wrote:<BR>|> It's the exact same wording as the text inserted by the MIT vandal. I<BR>|> asked the person inserting it to give us some information to prove the<BR>|> assertion, and I asked if it was true for the entire world, or only<BR>|> certain cultures. The person declined to do so.<BR>|<BR>|The information is not misogynistic, it is true. Labelling this person<BR>|a vandal does a disservice to the Wikipedia. The traditional treatment<BR>|in the West for hysteria was for the doctor to massage a womans genitals<BR>|by hand until she got some relief. The most extreme forms of hysteria<BR>|are not seen very much in modern times; some attribute this to a greater<BR>|interest in giving sexual satisfaction to women. The milder forms of<BR>|hysteria still abound; if males have a propensity for hysteria, it is<BR>|socialized out of them at a very young age.<BR>|<BR>|Jonathan<BR>|<BR><BR>A misogynist, but not a vandal. Anorexia, bulimia, borderline<BR>personality disorder,, and histrionic personality disorder are<BR>generally more common in women, according to my wife, the<BR>psychotherapist.<BR><BR>She adds, however, that hysteria is the NPOV ringer here, being a 19th<BR>century diagnosis that is no longer used (nor is the treatment<BR>mentioned above). Even in the 19th, men were diagnosed with it, but<BR>not given the analogous treatment.<BR><BR>More common in men than women: anti-social personality disorder. The<BR>prisons are full of them, she says. Also, most psychopaths and<BR>sociopaths are men.<BR><BR>Tom Parmenter<BR>Ortolan88<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>WikiEN-l mailing list<BR>WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org<BR>http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l</BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
<a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/O=1/I=brandr/vday03/text/flow/*http://shopping.yahoo.com
/shop?d=browse&id=20146735">Yahoo! Shopping</a> - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day