Menopause: The Menace

Anne Hutchinson is often portrayed as a "menopausal neurotic."

Whilst grossly misogynistic and rather silly, this made me laugh.  Mayhaps there is nothing more frightening than the hormonally imbalanced woman but...rephrase that: There is nothing more frightening than the menopausal/hormonal woman; but to conduct a serious argument on the basis that a woman's hormones made  her become a social deviant who had the potential to tear the Massachusetts Bay Colony apart?  It's stupid, but it makes someone with two X chromosomes feel absurdly powerful.