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Pastimes : The Literary Sauna (or Tomes in Towels)
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To: E who wrote (397)8/28/2001 11:36:41 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (3) of 466
 
I just listened to the play online.
They made more of the postpartum situation than the actual story did.
And did you notice the speech that John gave where he lists one of the causes of the "nervousness in modern civilization" as the "mental activity of women"?

It is amazing to think that men saw us as so fundamentally different from them. As if our minds were somehow limited, incapable of reason, ruled by our emotions, an entirely different organ than the one they possess. We still see that attitude- although I think most men would deny it.
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