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The Last Psychiatrist: No Self-Respecting Woman Would Go Out Without Make Up


A lot of invisible limits have been put on women's advancement. Some of them are of their own making, or at least aspects of life to which they acquiesce. Others are not so much so. I would find it very interesting if the authorities that dwelleth in the land of psychiatry were to really promote a standard for women's health, rather than insisting on female pathology. What if they said to women, "Oh, well, you know, you seem to be oppressed. How about some reality testing? It might be one way to discover what parts of the oppressive circumstances are your own and what belongs to other people?"

I guess such an invitation could be construed as yet another level of oppression, and in certain circumstances, that may well be true. But, there is a lot of pleasure in reality testing. We did it as kids until we were ordered not to continue our own experiments with the world, but instead adapt and conform.

Reality testing can be the ultimate, most pleasurable thing to do.

But psychiatry itself has traditionally put up a railing that has prevented women from testing too much reality. Isn't a woman who does that considered to embody what it means to be "insane"? She is refusing to grow up to accept her socially allotted position. She wants her childhood to go on, and on, and on.

The same principle applies to men, although to a lesser extent, since they are deemed less fragile than women, and therefore seem to have less to lose by testing reality for themselves. Bear Grylls gets a lot of kudos for his adventurism, but a female counterpart would probably not so much.

A female Bear Grylls, who threw off her makeup and went wild would very probably be accused of the following:

1. Exhibitionism

2. Thinking she is male (gender identity disorder)

3. Escapism

4. Masochism

5. Social disruption (depending on how 19th Century we get)

6. etc.

In fact, she would seem to have dropped from her relatively good position in society to become a moron.

Consequently, it would seem, a lot of feminism has to be bourgeois feminism, aspiring to climb higher up the social ladder by accepting most of the existing social values, including those of traditional femininity.

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