DYK #GStanleyHall, authority on adolescence & 1st president of APA, warned in 1904, that higher education was dangerous for women? It would “#castrate” them, make them deplore childbirth & abhor married life. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

DYK #GStanleyHall warned in 1904 that higher education was dangerous for women? It would “castrate” them, make them deplore childbirth, & abhor married life. A woman’s function was to have & raise children—the carefree “Gibson Girl” was a “medical monstrosity”. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

#GStanleyHall believed that a woman’s function was to have & raise children. He characterized the carefree “Gibson Girl” as a “medical monstrosity”. Throughout Hall’s work, he advised how to make “men more manly & women more womanly”. Speaking at a Y in 1902, he said,

DYK 1st president of #ClarkUniversity & #AmericanPsychologicalAssociation, #GStanleyHall, was strong about #MuscularChristianity, & warned, in 1900, of a “woman peril” in the world of the church? He feared too much civilization caused “primitive” instincts & emotions to shrink.

By 1920, more authorities came to believe that repressed #SexualDesire in men could actually cause impotence. But that did not keep #GStanleyHall from publishing “Morale, the Supreme Standard of Life & Conduct”. In it, he argued that

DYK many urged America to enter World War I in 1917 to cure the nation’s effeminacy? #GStanleyHall advised that any “slacker” who refused to go was sexually abnormal. So, the armed services threw all #ConscientiousObjectors into camps.

DYK the 1st president of APA, #GStanleyHall, claimed artists failed to make Jesus sufficiently masculine? His 1917 “Jesus, the Christ, in Light of Psychology” claimed images of him did not fulfill the “ideal of what a manly man should be.” HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory

#RobertBadenPowell & #GStanleyHall believed all boys needed to move from savagery to civilization to recapitulate human history & would not develop if they failed to move from one stage to another, starting as “savages in short pants”. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory

DYK early 20thC people expected boys to #FistFight? In 1904, #GStanleyHall put it this way in “Adolescence”, “… better even an occasional nose dented by a fist … than stagnation, general cynicism & censoriousness, bodily & psychic cowardice”.

DYK USA’s first authority on adolescence, #GStanleyHall, warned that folks who had #SoloSex seduced others into it & it was a major cause of “sexual perversion”. In his 1904 “Adolescence” he claimed #masturbation caused “early physical signs of decrepitude & senescence”.

DYK #GStanleyHall (d.1924), world authority on adolescence, promoted #MuscularChristianity? He feared too much “civilization” & “woman peril” in the church. He demanded “men be more manly & women more womanly”. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #binary

DYK #GenderHistory is weird? The 1st president of #APA, #GStanleyHall, warned in 1904 that higher education was dangerous for women. It would “#castrate” them & make them deplore childbirth & abhor married life. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist