8. Women Were Committed Most Often
Aside from just hysteria, women could be committed for all sorts of things. Not only was just having sexual desire enough to commit a woman, but there was a slew of other absurd things that could lead to a woman being confined to a mental institution. There was once a time when men thought that women reading would lead to their insanity. If a woman was seen studying or reading too much, she would stand the chance of being committed.
There was once an instance of a woman who spent years in an institution and the only thing that put her there was a police report that said she had been found reading at 5:30 in the morning. If any one woman was committed for simply reading, there would be a lot fewer women on the streets, that’s for sure. Luckily times have changed and we’re finally starting to actually encourage women to be intelligent and independent.
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