Anthere, you're a woman, aren't you? Are you trying to claim that my fight on this subject is somehow gender-based? Zoe Anthere anthere6@yahoo.com wrote: Note: forwarded message attached.
__________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 06:49:35 -0800 (PST) From: Anthere Subject: [WikiEN-l] The MIT vandal is back
To: wikien-l@wikipedia.com
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:32:27PM -0800, Zoe wrote:
It's the exact same wording as the text inserted
by the MIT >>vandal. I asked the person inserting it to give us some >>information to prove the assertion, and I asked if it was true >>for the entire world, or only certain cultures. The person >>declined to do so.
The information is not misogynistic, it is true.
Labelling >this person a vandal does a disservice to the Wikipedia. The >traditional treatment in the West for hysteria was for the >doctor to massage a womans genitals by hand until she got some >relief. The most extreme forms of hysteria are not seen very >much in modern times; some attribute this to a greater interest >in giving sexual satisfaction to women. The milder forms of
hysteria still abound; if males have a propensity for
hysteria, >it is socialized out of them at a very young age.
Jonathan
Interesting comment Jonathan
Made me think of what Clement Rosset says about passion and hysteria...
He usually approaches notions by paradox, and studied fallacious causes of suffering, in particular the generally accepted idea by which love is the main passion. He says love becomes a passion only when it ceases aiming at a real person, but rather toward an person or an object absent or unreal. Becoming a passion makes it cease being love. Passion would be the stuborn research of misfortune (or unhappiness), and as such be related to hysteria.
It's interesting Zoe is fighting so much against the addition ''more women than men suffer from [[hysteria]]''...There's no article on hysteria on wikipedia by the way.
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