> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > [interlinear below]
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:55 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
Well, you read my mind. I just hesitate to generalize like that without having some data that makes it, well, rational, and not stereotyping. And I wasn't sure that was where shag was going (I thought she was going to the point of pathologizing radicalism).
But, well, yes.
j