3000 Years Ago One Doctor Called All Women Crazy And It Stuck
Most women don’t even know the one woman who made sure we can’t be medicated without consent anymore
Eleanor Riese was 47 when she died of the side effects of drugs she was forced to take against her will. In an asylum. In America.
It wasn’t even forever ago.
Because that’s a thing we think about those terrifying stories of women being thrown in asylums. We think it was a horrible thing that happened to women hundreds of years ago, like in the Victorian era.
But no. She died in 1991.
She didn’t know they’d make a movie about her life, and she didn’t know Helena Bonham-Carter would play her.
Here’s all she knew. What was happening to her was wrong. And she had to fight the powerful men who did this to her. Because it wasn’t just her.
The case went all the way to the Supreme Court. And she won. But it was too late. At least for her.
Let me tell you a stupid thing the ancient Egyptians believed.
They believed a woman’s uterus could detach and float around inside her body. When it bumped into other organs, it made women go crazy.
