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> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:55 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com
> >wrote:
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> > actually, i'd been thinking about ppl diagnosed with ptsd. an alarming
> > number of radical feminsits seem to suffer from it.
>
>
> So you're thinking that radicalism is being pathologized? I'm just making
> sure I'm understanding. Or are you wondering why it would be that many
> radical feminists do in fact suffer from it? Not that these couldn't both
> be
> true. Also of course one would want some data on radical feminists
> diagnosed
> with PTSD. Otherwise we may be explaining a phenomenon that isn't actually
> there, and especially in a case like this, that makes me nervous -- since
> everyone's always wondering what's wrong with radical feminists that they
> hate men so much. And everything, really.
>
Being raped makes you much likelier to have PTSD and to care a lot about the fact that there's a lot of rape out there. I don't see the mystery, although I can certainly see the alarm.