Hey, in some places its just flat out against the law to suggest that the brains of men and women differ.

You might be interested in an article I read in Slate to that effect.

http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/2005/02/12.html#a6795

I agree. Feminists are into drama.

Perhaps the dear lady's whalebone corset was drawn too tight:

" The female waistline has been moved up and down over the passage of time, but this became a real health hazard when whalebone corsets came into use during the last part of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries, because they constricted the vital organs in the body - especially those of the respiratory and digestive systems. Women with "wasp-like" waists fainted so often that those who were well-off purchased "fainting" couches; and when a woman "swooned," the cry, "Cut her laces!" often allowed her enough air to recover. "

http://www.innerbody.com/text/card11.html

George Will on Nancy Hopkins:

"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."

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/gw20050127.shtml

Thank you, George Will. I was afraid I was the only one whose first reaction to her was, "My goodness, she's caught the vapors!"

Nancy Hopkins is from MIT, not Harvard...Harvard has enough such people on its own without adding the ones from down Mass Ave.

When does the "masculinism" movement start?

George Will hit the nail on the head (yes, I'm using deliberately phallic/violent imagery here). I can't even bring myself to read much about the Summers case, because I'm too appalled at how these allegedly-professional "feminists" had fainting attacks and made hysterical charges against perfectly legitimate scientific statements.

Women didn't start earning PhDs in my field until the 1950's. If we let women like Nancy Hopkins take over, it won't be long before certain types of men start wondering (again) if women really ARE too hysterical to undertake scientific study.

I swear, if you all don't STOP saying mean things about us women and our emotions then I am going to cry.

And if you can't figure out why it's so upsetting then I'm certainly not going to TELL you...

Later,
bbeck

Two points:
1) This FEMALE is into censorship and
2) is using a stereotypical (but not common) female behavior to vent her feelings. In the past we'd get up and swear rather than get faint or nauseated. Frankly, although I was an early feminist, I've long ago grown to be embarassed by these FEMALES.

Definition of "The Vapors"

vapors
Archaic.
A nervous disorder such as depression or hysteria. Used with "the".

Example Usage: "Madame was so shocked by the display of the barbarians bare ankles that she swooned, overcome by the vapors"