The “H” word is usually tossed during confrontations when a girl’s
intellect is fully revealed and semi-witty responses to her proper arguments
have been exhausted or concession ignorantly and/or stubbornly refused by her opponent. “H” bombing starts early. Most girls have been on the receiving end of
a confused look and dropped chin by the time they’re in sixth grade –
accompanied by the ever telling head shake. To be labeled “hysterical” by citizens of influence is still the best and most effective cheap
shot in undermining a woman’s credibility, confidence and position. “Hysteria”
remains the slant of a biased media when reporting on strong, opinionated
political women. It is the easiest dismissal of all time. Nothing makes a girl crazier than being called "hysterical."
“Hysteria” is not a
charge leveled at men because they don’t have the parts for it.
Plato wrote the matrix of women i.e. the womb - becomes a wandering thing when the organ remains empty beyond its proper time - becoming “discontented and angry,” it dries up, shrivels ups, breaks loose from its tethering and begins traveling about the body in an upward direction – interfering with breathing and circulatory function – driving the woman so afflicted to every extremity, causing every kind of disease – including strangulation if reaching the chest - until such time as it has been sown and rendered again content and docile. This “animal that longs to generate children” if not “constantly irrigated” by males (yes- “irrigated”) and anchored by pregnancy causes the sufferer the most extreme anguish and oddest behavior. Aristotle believed women were defects of nature – but did concede their singular defect (not being male) rendered them capable of child bearing – presumably to some benefit of the human race.
Hippocrates and his followers perpetuated the wandering womb theory in medicine – “hysteria” as a condition particular to women resulting from uterine dysfunction i.e. remaining un-pregnant for too long. The father of medicine himself coined the term believing suffocation and madness were the fate of women whose uteri experienced drought due to a lack of regular irrigation.
Plato wrote the matrix of women i.e. the womb - becomes a wandering thing when the organ remains empty beyond its proper time - becoming “discontented and angry,” it dries up, shrivels ups, breaks loose from its tethering and begins traveling about the body in an upward direction – interfering with breathing and circulatory function – driving the woman so afflicted to every extremity, causing every kind of disease – including strangulation if reaching the chest - until such time as it has been sown and rendered again content and docile. This “animal that longs to generate children” if not “constantly irrigated” by males (yes- “irrigated”) and anchored by pregnancy causes the sufferer the most extreme anguish and oddest behavior. Aristotle believed women were defects of nature – but did concede their singular defect (not being male) rendered them capable of child bearing – presumably to some benefit of the human race.
Hippocrates and his followers perpetuated the wandering womb theory in medicine – “hysteria” as a condition particular to women resulting from uterine dysfunction i.e. remaining un-pregnant for too long. The father of medicine himself coined the term believing suffocation and madness were the fate of women whose uteri experienced drought due to a lack of regular irrigation.
The Greek word for “uterus” is “hystera.”
** pause for "wtf " moment**
On through the ages to Charcot and his student Sigmund Freud – and their sex, sex, and more sex and hysteria studies. Freud - quitting the work he had hoped would make him famous – the search for the ever elusive eel penis - admitted failure in his first published paper (he never found the eel’s penis) and in complete frustration turned to the study of women and hysteria – and cocaine. Girl crazy was an extremely lucrative business early on and in 1918 Sears, Roebuck and Co. advertised the sale of the home “massaging device” so that women could treat their own hysteria economically and in the privacy of their own homes. This “home essential” was on the market nine years before the electric vacuum and ten years before the iron.
The stresses of the
modern women, after all - caused them to lose all civility and subjected them
to nervous disorders and problems with their reproductive tracts. On and on through the ages, friends. Thank heaven, men are still around to offer
medical assistance by way of, “I know
what you need.”
Hell yes - that’s got to be it.
I wonder what the cure for dumbass is . . .
