The Negative Connotations of Gandy

i'm sure the word gossip partly gets its negative connotations from men feeling a bit sort of suspicious of these women conspiring i think probably also from the perspective of the woman who's just given birth. The gossips were probably sometimes really annoying if you when you're trying to get some peace and quiet, she says. Women might have passed on a lot of good practical sense and understanding about birth and kind of understanding about what happens afterwards - but it was life-saving in much more difficult conditions than we have now.