George Will: Harvard Hysterics

The Washington Post ^ | 1/17/05 | George Will

[blitzgig]

Very smart column.

[Spok]

"felt I was going to be sick. My heart was pounding and my breath was shallow." And, "I just couldn't breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill." She said that if she had not bolted from the room, "I would've either blacked out or thrown up."

No mental problems here.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Is this the fruit of feminism? A woman at the peak of the academic pyramid becomes theatrically flurried by an unwelcome idea and, like a Victorian maiden exposed to male coarseness, suffers the vapors and collapses on the drawing room carpet in a heap of crinolines until revived by smelling salts and the offending brute's contrition?

If you're a feminist, that's got to sting.

[blitzgig]

Ping

[independentmind]

Is this the fruit of feminism? A woman at the peak of the academic pyramid becomes theatrically flurried by an unwelcome idea and, like a Victorian maiden exposed to male coarseness, suffers the vapors and collapses on the drawing room carpet in a heap of crinolines until revived by smelling salts and the offending brute's contrition?

I couldn't believe she actually she said this when I first read about the incident. Some professions are far more forgiving than others, I think.

[smonk]

doesn't george will have a ping list?

[Tulane]

He should...that guy is the best.

[bootless]

Sounds like Hillary's audio book:

"I could hardly breathe..."

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I read it in an earlier article. She said it.

[blitzgig]

Yeah, I got a big laugh when I read her reaction.

[Kozak]

hearing Summers, "felt I was going to be sick. My heart was pounding and my breath was shallow." And, "I just couldn't breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill." She said that if she had not bolted from the room, "I would've either blacked out or thrown up."

One of the Victorian treatments for Hysteria (by the way the derivation is from the greek for "uterus") was to pluck out pubic hair.

[Spok]

"One of the Victorian treatments for Hysteria (by the way the derivation is from the greek for "uterus") was to pluck out pubic hair."

Now I'm gonna puke and pass out.

[Tulane]

I thought the same thing.

[Kozak]

I can cure that. Nurse, tweezers please. STAT.

[Plutarch]

...like a Victorian maiden exposed to male coarseness, suffers the vapors...

A great idea describing the feminists as having vapors, just as in my post #39 on this topic last week:

What these academics were really saying was that: "You have violated a tenet of political correctitude, and I choose to have the vapours to emphasize your crime.."

[blitzgig]

Very good!

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Very smart column.

Yes, very!

[gaspar]

Nancy Hopkins is a 62 year old researcher has spent most of her recent life cloning zebra fish. She is known neither for her writing, nor her teaching. She is, however, a useful cipher in calculating the number of female scientists on the faculty.

[Republicus2001]

quick, get her some smelling salts!

[Plutarch]

Actually, posted a vapors reference the day before mine.

Just another way of saying she would get the vapors.