familiar litany of older, toxic beliefs: Women are drama queens (so don’t treat their pain; it’s not really that bad). Women can’t handle the intellectual and emotional rigors of equal participation in society (so when they develop a degenerative disease that leaves them unable to think or even move, we don’t need to be urgent about it). Women who behave in difficult or frustrating ways aren’t just annoying, they’re abnormal (so let’s pump them full of mood stabilizers; it’ll be doing us all a favor).
