<P>Anthere, you're a woman, aren't you? Are you trying to claim that my fight on this subject is somehow gender-based?
<P>Zoe
<P> <B><I>Anthere <anthere6@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>Note: forwarded message attached.<BR><BR><BR>__________________________________________________<BR>Do you Yahoo!?<BR>Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day<BR>http://shopping.yahoo.com > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 06:49:35 -0800 (PST)<BR>From: Anthere <ANTHERE6@YAHOO.COM><BR>Subject: [WikiEN-l] The MIT vandal is back<BR><BR>To: wikien-l@wikipedia.com<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<BR>by the MIT >>vandal. I asked the person inserting it<BR>to give us some >>information to prove the assertion,<BR>and I asked if it was true >>for the entire world, or<BR>only certain cultures. The person >>declined to do<BR>so.<BR><BR>>The information is not misogynistic, it is true. <BR>Labelling >this person a vandal does a disservice to<BR>the Wikipedia. The >traditional treatment in the West<BR>for hysteria was for the >doctor to massage a womans<BR>genitals by hand until she got some >relief. The most<BR>extreme forms of hysteria are not seen very >much in<BR>modern times; some attribute this to a greater<BR>interest >in giving sexual satisfaction to women. The<BR>milder forms of<BR>>hysteria still abound; if males have a propensity for<BR>hysteria, >it is socialized out of them at a very<BR>young age.<BR><BR>>Jonathan<BR><BR>Interesting comment Jonathan<BR><BR>Made me think of what Clement Rosset says about<BR>passion and hysteria...<BR><BR>He usually approaches notions by paradox, and studied<BR>fallacious causes of suffering, in particular the<BR>generally accepted idea by which love is the main<BR>passion. He says love becomes a passion only when it<BR>ceases aiming at a real person, but rather toward an<BR>person or an object absent or unreal. Becoming a<BR>passion makes it cease being love. Passion would be<BR>the stuborn research of misfortune (or unhappiness),<BR>and as such be related to hysteria.<BR><BR>It's interesting Zoe is fighting so much against the<BR>addition ''more women than men suffer from<BR>[[hysteria]]''...There's no article on hysteria on<BR>wikipedia by the way.<BR><BR>__________________________________________________<BR>Do you Yahoo!?<BR>Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day<BR>http://shopping.yahoo.com<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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