Welsh 7th decader exploring feminism, something I've not had much use for to date. I'm an 'artist' by profession and career, turning what I see as the essence of an ideai into a 'boiled down' visual format. Unfortunately, there's no way to add my interpretive imagery here, so typing it is...
Came to hysteria through dotta suffering dreadful UTI's (known as 'Hysterical Women's Disease until 1980's). Learned about history of 'hysteria', going back thousands of years through to The Renaissance (witch burning etc), on to psychiatry and the 'scientification' of hysteria, particularly after the First World War when what was considered a particularly female diagnosis, started showing up in soldiers... hmmm... ok, I'll backtrack to mid to late 1800's and a French psychiatrist called Charcot, who, for all his medical sins, understood "hysteria" as being "caused by patriarchy"... But basically a female failing because she finds dealing with the patriarchal system extremely stressful (even feminist tracts track how female emancipated a country is by the yardstick of how many women participate as a member of its workforce??! Saudi Arabia is hugely. female emancipated...) Yet no parallel drawn with the finding that for men to be diagnosed 'hysterics', it was because they were not dealing well with an 'understandable' extreme trauma ('shell shock'), yet for women, well, it's just because we're the weaker sex because we certainly haven't been through anything as traumatic as the horrors of war, day after day, week after week, year after year, generation after generation... hmmm... "death by a thousand cuts"? Nah, doesn't count you hysterical bitch 😆
Thank you for your indulgence for reading this far, thoughts on a postcard please to... fuck, showing my age... 😂
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