"She saw at least nine girls being carried out of their classrooms, kicking and screaming. She recognised some of them as regulars at her stall. 'It was a heartbreaking sight,' she says. She later saw a witch doctor enter a small prayer room with his assistants.... 'Women are softer and physically weaker,' [said Zaki Ya, a spiritual healer with 20 years of experience]. 'That makes them more susceptible to spiritual possession.... Science is important but it can't fully explain the supernatural... Non-believers won't understand these attacks unless it happens to them.'... Academic Afiq Noor argues that the stricter implementation of Islamic law in school... is linked to the surge in outbreaks... The theory is that such a constricted environment could be creating more anxiety.... To clinical psychologists like Steven Diamond, the 'painful, frightening and embarrassing symptoms' often associated with mass hysteria could be 'indicative of a frustrated need for attention. Might their remarkable symptoms be saying something about how they are really feeling inside but are unable or unwilling to allow themselves to consciously acknowledge, feel or verbalise?'"
From "The mystery of screaming schoolgirls in Malaysia" (BBC). Much more at the link, with interesting photographs of life in Kelantan, Malaysia and of a $2,000 "anti-hysteria kit" (containing formic acid, ammonia inhalants, pepper spray, and pain-causing bamboo 'pincers' intended to drive out evil spirits).
३५ टिप्पण्या:
Ahhh, Islamic Law … Is there anything it can't do?
The misogyny runs deep.
I don't understand? If you've got BOTH Grilled Mackerel AND Yellow curry...
What are you screaming about? It makes NO SENSE
Seems linked to guilt over abortion and infanticide.
Here in the U.S., taking offense over the invisible but omnipresent ghost of sexism causes periodic outbreaks of hysteria.
What if women in the U.S. are hysterical with grief and haunted by ghosts of aborted children?
and of a $2,000 "anti-hysteria kit" (containing formic acid, ammonia inhalants, pepper spray, and pain-causing bamboo 'pincers' intended to drive out evil spirits).
Order now and we’ll include a second kit at no additional charge.
Just pay shipping and handling.
Another shithole country with a shitty culture and education system.
NYC and LA school officials are keeping a close watch. Every culture is superior to ours.
I wonder if the anti-hysteria kit would work on SJW and all the false claims of sexual and racial assaults.
"To clinical psychologists like Steven Diamond, the 'painful, frightening and embarrassing symptoms' often associated with mass hysteria could be 'indicative of a frustrated need for attention."
Islam delivering some more of its wonderfulness.
"and of a $2,000 "anti-hysteria kit" (containing formic acid, ammonia inhalants, pepper spray, and pain-causing bamboo 'pincers' intended to drive out evil spirits)."
Fredo is going to get thousands of these.
$2,000 for a few coins worth of whatever was lying around the back room?
I’m in the wrong business.
The term hysteria comes from the Greek word hysterika, meaning Uterus. In ancient Greece it was believed that a wandering and discontented Uterus was blamed for that dreaded female ailment of excessive emotion, hysteria.
However...
Hysteria Was Not Treated With Vibrators
"You know the story about the male Victorian physicians who unwittingly produced orgasms in their female clients by treating them for 'hysteria' with newly-invented, labor-saving, mechanical vibrators? It’s little more than an urban legend albeit one transmitted through academic books and articles. Hallie Lieberman and Eric Schatzberg, the authors of a shocking new paper, A Failure of Academic Quality Control: The Technology of Orgasm, don’t quite use the word fraud but they come close."
Since its publication in 1999, The Technology of Orgasm by Rachel Maines has become one of the most widely cited works on the history of sex and technology (Maines, 1999). This slim book covers a lot of ground, but Maines’ core argument is quite simple. She argues that Victorian physicians routinely treated female hysteria patients by stimulating them to orgasm using electromechanical vibrators. The vibrator was, according to Maines, a labor-saving technology that replaced the well-established medical practice of clitoral massage for hysteria. She states that physicians did not perceive either the vibrator or manual massage as sexual, because neither method involved vaginal penetration.
This argument has been repeated in dozens of scholarly works and cited with approval in many more. A few scholars have challenged various parts of the book. Yet no scholars have contested her central argument, at least not in the peer-reviewed literature. Her argument even spread to popular culture, appearing in a Broadway play, a feature-length film, several documentaries, and many mainstream books and articles. This once controversial idea has now become an accepted fact.
But there’s only one problem with Maines’ argument: we could find no evidence that physicians ever used electromechanical vibrators to induce orgasms in female patients as a medical treatment.
we could find no evidence that physicians ever used electromechanical vibrators to induce orgasms in female patients as a medical treatment
And consequently, all work on the time travel project ground to an abrupt halt.
Maybe they don't like grilled mackerel, yellow curry and steaming glutinous rice.
"Since its publication in 1999..."
The quality of academic research, especially in the humanities, depends heavily on the quality of the researcher. As far more people have flooded into the academy than are qualified for it, the quality of the material produced has necessarily dropped, such that most "research" currently produced is at best worthless, and at worst an amalgam of lies and propaganda.
To clinical psychologists like Steven Diamond, the 'painful, frightening and embarrassing symptoms' often associated with mass hysteria could be 'indicative of a frustrated need for attention.
Since 11/9/16....
Evil spirits kept away with mummified bats hung next to doorways and windows.
That said, I don't think people should knock mass hysteria until they're tried it.
Isn't suicide/attempted suicide contagious? I'd rather have the hysteria.
Western kids cut themselves and overdose on pills. Same behavior.
It sounds like the Salem Witch trials all over again--young girls who are "possessed."
"On the boats and on the planes
They're coming to America
Never looking back again
They're coming to America"
Sort of like one of the episodes in "Kafka on the Shore".
Robert Bartholomew, a sociologist in New Zealand who has collected data on 800 outbreaks dating back to 1566, says that in 99 percent of mass hysteria events, the majority of its sufferers are female.
Is there nothing the patriarchy can't do?
If only girls could throw this sort of thing would never happen,
Dang, this made me hungry for some grilled mackerel, yellow curry and steaming glutinous rice.
Primitives gonna primitive.
But I wonder why some of our crusadering types aren't recommending that we (the secular-imperial USA) do something about it.
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After all, aren't hysterical little bitches our responsibility?
That "Histeria Kit" looks like something that came from the Ghostbusters' van. Maybe some enterprising Malaysian saw the movie on the village VHS, and realized that this was his ticket to the big time.
As AA said, there are many fine photos in the article. The pile of "cursed" objects reminded me of the "VOLVO" logo that fell off that car shortly after I bought it in 1981. For some reason I threw it (the logo) into the bottom of my toolbox, where it remains to this day. Now, if there was ever a cursed vehicle, that was it.
I'll entertain any reasonable offers for the logo from anyone who desires a cursed object of their own. No questions asked.
Anti hysteria kit looks an awful lot like the little bandoliers of essential oils my fellow SAHMs are always selling to each other.
'That makes them more susceptible to spiritual possession...
That explains a lot.
"But there’s only one problem with Maines’ argument: we could find no evidence that physicians ever used electromechanical vibrators to induce orgasms in female patients as a medical treatment."
Maybe it was transmitted orally.
SAHM?
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Please?
An interesting dynamic we saw in Malaysia was the contrast between the way ethnically Chinese girls and the Malaysian girls dressed. Many/most of the young Chinese girls wore very short skirts and other very casual clothes where most Malaysian girls were covered head to toe with some in complete Burkas. I'm sure the boys were a lot more interested in looking at the Chinese girls. How does that make the Malaysian girls feel? How many of them want to be free to wear what they want? How many fights with her parents does this cause?
Also the boys dress in jeans and shirts that would be common in the USA. (However, very few men wore shorts.)
Well Barry, the featured girl likes to sing Katy Perry songs.
"Let you put your hands on me
In my skin-tight jeans
Be your teenage dream tonight"
The first, rude, electromechanical vibrators (EMVs) were dangerous to subject and therapist alike. Electrocutions were common, and the relationship between speed, range of oscillation, and torque was not well understood. It's no wonder that the first practitioners kept a low profile, but still, Science marched on.
The earliest device to receive widespread acceptance was the Daimler Kuhstill, some of which were in use as late as 1898, when the Schneider-Cruesot works and Skoda, working off very similar concepts, introduced hydraulic braking, liquid cooling, and improved sights.
The scene was set for a major EMV race.
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And the world would never be the same
SAHM?
Stay At Home Mom (I assume).
Thanks, probably.
Narr
I mean thanks, definitely
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