UNSPECIFIED – CIRCA 1900: Egyptian civilization, Old Kingdom, Dynasty IV. Painted limestone statuette of a woman making beer. From Giza. (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)
see – http://tinyurl.com/ybzee5lo
if one is to believe movie-makers, women are prone to ‘go to pieces’ in stressful situations – becoming hysterical
the approved method to treat such hysteria and bring the woman back to her senses – get her to snap out of it – is a kindly, well-meaning slap to the face
this scene from “Airplane’ parodies this common practice
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before slapping the woman became the customary form of ‘treatment’ for hysteria, the practice favoured by doctors was to bring the woman to orgasm by fingering her clitoris
before all outraged female readers of madhatters jump down my throat at the portrayal of women in this video, continue watching to the end !
We might not realize how much of our pop culture stories involve taking women against their will. It’s often dressed up as romance. It’s an “old, a deeply troubling media convention.” It’s an outgrowth of the idea that women are passive participants in relationships, and the best ones are too virtuous to seek out sex, but men know best who belongs with who. – misscellania
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the 2018 FIFA World Cup is being staged in Russia but it is not the only football (soccer) competition being held there
teams of women kitted out in full-length bridal dresses played each other in a 5-a-side competition – the winners being presented with a floral replica of the World Cup [ http://tinyurl.com/y849lbge ]
[thanks to regular reader and contributor AD for sending me a link to this vid]
