The New York Times takes us back 50 or more years by giving voice to Caitlin Flanagan in her Op-Ed titled Hysteria And The Teenage Girl which can be found here
No dairy could properly explore the depths of this piece of execrable nonsense:
Both history and myth are filled with stories of girls exhibiting bizarre symptoms around the time of puberty — from Cassandra and her raving, to the girls of the Salem witch trials, to the girls whose households were believed to be the site of poltergeist hauntings, to cheerleaders in New York and North Carolina. Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
This kind of thought pattern is something we might look for in a time of increasing fundamentalism and glossy-eyed backward gazing as we keep moving into the 21st Century with the entire Republican Party longing for a time when women could be controlled.
We can't go back there. I want to believe we can't ever go back to a time when women were so subjugated to men that they didn't have sports teams for girls in schools and women had to wear dresses or skirts. Those were just the outward manifestations of something much more sinister in society. At least if we keep the word out there about what's happening, we can maybe fight it together.