[WikiEN-l] The MIT vandal is back

Sun Feb 16 22:42:51 UTC 2003

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 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Note: forwarded message attached.

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From: Anthere 
Subject: [WikiEN-l] The MIT vandal is back

To: wikien-l at 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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