I figure it’s my turn to speak. I do have a right to speak for myself, right? Apparently not everyone thinks so.

Forgive me for being grumpy: I have a long history of being misunderstood. By the Greeks, for instance. To them, I was the hystera, and Hippocrates, Plato, Celsus and others wrote learned treatises about my habit of wandering about the body, causing women to behave badly (you guessed it – “hysteria”.) In their defence, these scientists may simply have been plagiarising a medical papyrus first published by ancient Egyptians (the original beard-strokers) in 1900BC.

Sadly, this would not