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[–]yishengqingwa666 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Men did this. This is male-run "medicine".

[–]MarkTwainiac[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, it's male-run "medicine." Look at that was done to Hollywood actress Frances Farmer cuz she was intelligent, "mouthy," spirited, feisty, independent, & wouldn't conform to the "ladylike" behavior standards that male movie execs & her mother wanted her to embrace, & IRL she had no interest in playing up her beauty by dressing feminine & dolling herself up with makeup, etc. So she was repeatedly committed to mental hospitals where she was brutalized & tortured in various ways... But none of this worked, on the contrary, it all just made Farmer madder in both senses of the word - so they finally gave her a lobotomy.

All of this was detailed in the harrowing but excellent 1982 film "Frances," starring Jessica Lange (with Sam Shephard as a really good guy):

https://youtu.be/TcaT7L9Xj04