Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Studies from phallus-centered scientists and physicians portray menstruation as a symptom of a disease which severely limits women’s activities (just like what colds, flu and cough viruses do to us). (Mary Putnam Jacobi 1877, pp. 14, 21) How can a perfectly normal biological phenomenon be a disease? How can it be called a ‘sick time’ [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
No doubt, there is a double standard in the assessment of a person’s mental condition among psychologists and psychiatrists; one for men and another for us, women. For a woman to be mentally healthy, she must obey, follow or ‘adjust’ to accepted behavioral norms given to her sex — passivity, obedience, self-sacrifice, lack of ambition; [...]
Posted in acads on Mar 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Hag originally means ‘Holy Woman,’ a cognate of the Egyptian word heg, a pred-ynastic matriarchal ruler who knew words of power, or hekua. (“Book of the Dead,” E.A. Wallis Budge, trans. 1960, p.351) It traces its roots to the Old English word haegtesse, the Old High German word hagzissa, which both meant ‘harpy and witch,’ [...]
