“taking a shot at the woman for being emotional “
I hope you know that med schools taught—and for a very long time—the concept of the hysterical female as usual and cause to dismiss female concerns of any kind, including offering a diagnosis of something being “all in your head.” My grandmother and another relative went through this—Grandmother ending up with and dying of cancer, and the relative ending up with major surgery for an unusual physical condition.
Oh, yeah. Women getting lobotomies like Joe Kennedy’s kid and Tennessee William’s sister. Zelda Fitzgerald’s unnecessarily cruel and barbaric treatment at top-flight mental institutions. Absolute horror stories. Freud also added a whole level of stupidity and cruelty to the discussion - and I am one of the few people here who thinks Freud knocked it out of the park occasionally.
It also sounds so very dumb when someone resorts to the “emotional” argument, don’t you think? So passe, so trivial, so juvenile.