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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9535976" data-attributes="member: 4534">I once read an essay from a physician in the 19th century arguing women should not ride trains for fear of the high speed causing their uterus (uteruses?) to, I don't know, fall out of their bodies, turn inside out, or something else just as bizarre.&nbsp; A few decades later in the 19th century, I read another essay where someone argued women shouldn't go to medical school.&nbsp; As women had already attended and graduated medical school by this time in the United States, the author couldn't argue they were incapable, so he argued that by expending all that intellectual efforts it would deprive their reproductive parts of much needed energy, they would shrivel up, and be unable to have children.&nbsp; (Sometimes you read the words someone wrote and ask yourself, &quot;Did he really believe that?&quot;)&nbsp; My vote would be that people believed women couldn't survive the Trail of Grasses because of their own sexist beliefs but, well, obviously it isn't true.&nbsp; Though some people, even those remaining Witchers, might continue to think women should be among them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9535976, member: 4534"] I once read an essay from a physician in the 19th century arguing women should not ride trains for fear of the high speed causing their uterus (uteruses?) to, I don't know, fall out of their bodies, turn inside out, or something else just as bizarre. A few decades later in the 19th century, I read another essay where someone argued women shouldn't go to medical school. As women had already attended and graduated medical school by this time in the United States, the author couldn't argue they were incapable, so he argued that by expending all that intellectual efforts it would deprive their reproductive parts of much needed energy, they would shrivel up, and be unable to have children. (Sometimes you read the words someone wrote and ask yourself, "Did he really believe that?") My vote would be that people believed women couldn't survive the Trail of Grasses because of their own sexist beliefs but, well, obviously it isn't true. Though some people, even those remaining Witchers, might continue to think women should be among them. [/QUOTE]

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