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Hysterical is a podcast hosted by Dan Taberski and produced by Wondery and Pineapple Street Media. The podcast is composed of seven episodes. The podcast discusses a mysterious ailment that affected multiple students in Le Roy, New York in 2011.
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“... "hysteria," it appears, is .. an epithet with which men have stigmatized women across the ages.”
“... the word itself has become so generically linked with the feminine in popular understanding that we need to specify male hysteria the way we specify women writers, whereas to say female hysteria sounds redundant.”
“... throughout the centuries doctors have sought to find other names for hysteria in men. As [French psychiatrist Lucien] Israel explains, "The hysteria diagnosis became for a man . . . the real injury, a sign of weakness, a castration in a word. To say to a man 'you are hysterical' became under these conditions a form of saying to him 'You are not a man.'"”
“... hysteria has been constructed as a perjorative term for femininity in a duality that relegated the more honorable masculine form to another category.”
“Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination... Alarm is one thing, and hysteria is another. Hysteria impels people to destroy the very thing they are struggling to preserve.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.