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Ok I don’t mean to be doing this too often but I literally just wrote a paper about this so I thought I would comment! The English translation is The Cursed Woman but the original French is La Femme Damnée. “Femmes Damnées” was the title of a Baudelaire poem from his acclaimed 1857 book Fleurs du mal, which was known, among other things, to be a collection that famously dealt with the subject of lesbians. The poem tells the story of the desires and passionate love between two lesbians: Delphine and Hippolyte. As a result of this poem and of the book as a whole, the terms “fleurs du mal” and “femme damnée” became lesbian monikers of the turn of the century. Though some have deemed the term “damned women” to be accusatory of some moral dissonance, the poem it is derived from is actually quite sympathetic to the condition of lesbian love as it is a love which is unable to fully flourish in that time. Regardless, the translated title of Tassaert’s painting is misleading, as the original French is less accusatory and more identifying. The title is more accurately “the lesbian.”
And she’s doing fine
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As someone with BPD who has a female psychiatrist: always ask for a female psychiatrist.
Male psychiatrists are happy to overdiagnose BPD in female patients, stick them on some medication, and tell them there is nothing more that can be done.
Female psychiatrists mostly look into more likely options (BPD is not as common as people think) and will be more willing to provide longer term, more extensive treatment options. Mine even informed me that the majority of BPD symptoms will be lessened when not in a relationship, something a male would never have done, as they have the belief that a woman’s goal in life should be relationship.
Men will not care about how this disorder affects you. All they care about is making you more palatable to other men: take medication so they don’t have to deal with your emotions, don’t externalise any fear of abandonment because that will make you seem jealous and crazy. They do not want to make you better, they want to make you marketable.
Tw for mentions of eating disorders below the cut.
