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The Relationship Between Men and Women in the 21st Century
The idea that women are governed ciplly by their bodies, and that they also have a very strong emotional connection to their bodies. They're not associated with the mind in the way that men have been. And so that attitude also clouded the understanding of diseases. We see when certain chronic diseases are named, such as multiple scorosis,. which now we know to day is a disease, possibly of automine origin, affects more women than men. But when it was first being documented, when women were presented with the symptoms that we know a characteristic of this disease, they were assumed to be hysteric because that was the precedent.