Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis for women. It was described as exhibiting a wide array of symptoms, including anxiety, shortness of breath, fainting, nervousness, exaggerated and impulsive sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, sexually impulsive behavior, and a “tendency to cause trouble for others”.[1]
So basically anything the man deems abnormal. Being a woman in the past sounds shitty.
It’s not really so much better now, tbh…
Everything is still blamed on hormones and periods and stuff, or just dismissed.
And a lot of things aren’t even studied in women, including many medications, because the hormonal cycle is “disruptive to the research” even though half the population experiences it, and men have their own hormone cycles.
Not so antiquated if you look into pain management and other areas in which doctors are dismissive of symptoms.
“Oh, you have an autoimmune disorder? Probably in your head.”
It sounds like a great name for an all women stand up comedy show.
As opposed to the perpetually ignored Male Hysteria … which often leads to side effects including world war, genocide, mass poverty and government authoritarianism
seems simple enough to solve, just need to come up with the male equivalent of this:
We could just aim it at the butt or something?
Apoligies, but I can’t understand what you are saying unless its presented in the form of a 19th-century lithograph.
honestly, we should bring back wank clinics, would help with nerves.
Bring back?
I was going to say, its not like truck stops stopped existing…
Calm down
