/lit/ - Literature

Post the most ridiculous thing you've heard in your English classes in a while.

I was sitting through a class on Regeneration and we did some work on this psychoanalytic theory by a women that said that the psychological symptoms of soldiers in the first world war were similar (or identical, I don't remember) to the symptoms of victorian housewives who suffered from hysteria. One of the reasons given was that the troops were in such confined spaces all the time and were powerless, like women.

I wasn't aware that victorian housewives were shot at and shelled relentlessly in their day-to-day lives as well.