Winner has been held without bail since she was arrested in June 2017 and charged under the Espionage Act. Her trial had been set to start Oct. 15.She is a former Air Force linguist who speaks Arabic and Farsi and had a top-secret security clearance. She worked for the national security contractor Pluribus International at Fort Gordon in Georgia when she was with copying a classified U.S. Report and mailing it to an unidentified news organization.The Justice Department announced Winner's arrest on the same day. The Intercept, an online news outlet, reported it had obtained a classified National Security Agency report suggesting Russian hackers attacked a U.S. Voting software supplier before the 2016 presidential election.

The uterus fronted the blame for pretty much all female mental illnesses.The uterus certainly deserves recognition, because DAMN, IT ACCOMPLISHES A LOT. Unfortunately, though, the uterus had a different kind of spotlight shone on it throughout history.Back in approximately 1900 BC, the ancient Egyptians were among the first people to attribute the cause of women's mental disorders to a little thing called '.' Basically, people truly believed a woman's heightened anxiety and distress were due to her 'wandering womb.' Now, I know history had to start somewhere when it comes to tackling complex issues like mental health, but this was a widespread belief that persisted until at least the 16th century, and it fueled stereotypes about women that, honestly, still kind of exist to this day (i.e. Crusaders of solaria.

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Women can't be trusted to be experts on their own bodies).Also, fun fact: The term 'hysteria,' which characterized the first mental disorder attributed to women, comes from ',' the Greek word for uterus. Other cures for women with hysteria sought to strip them of their sexual agency.A Greek doctor named Melampus was similarly preoccupied with women's uteruses, believing their psychological issues could be chalked up to ' and a lack of orgasms.Laugh at that theory all you want, but Melampus' ideas actually continued to hold water for future developments in this area for years to come.Plato, the Greek philosopher, argued that the uterus is unhappy when it cannot join with a man, and thus carry a baby.Hippocrates also cited an unsettled uterus as the cause of hysteria. He claimed the organ became restless as a result of an inadequate sex life, which, experts suggested, could only be improved within the bounds of marriage.On the flip side of that, Soranus, a Greek physician from the second century AD, introduced revolutionary cures for hysteria. He argued that, instead of having any sex at all, a woman's consists of perpetual virginity and abstaining from sex.So, the choices for a mentally ill woman of this time were reduced to either finding a husband who will supposedly screw the mental disorder out of her, or refraining from having any sex whatsoever.

As far as I can tell, male orgasms were never classified this way, presumably because no one was pointing to male reproductive organs as causes of mental illness.Language matters, whether you want to acknowledge it or not. The mere fact that a woman's orgasm had to be shrouded by obscure medical jargon is really, really troubling. There was a time when doctors used sex toys on their patients.Physicians practicing in Victorian England probably didn't know it at the time, but.As if it wasn't bad enough to medicalize female orgasms down to 'hysterical paroxysms,' a woman herself couldn't possibly be trusted to treat herself to that pleasure.Instead, the task was left to the (male) doctor, who performed on his female patients.As most of us know, a pelvic massage (or, if we call it what it really is, fingering a woman) can be quite exhausting, and can lead to hand cramping. And thus, thanks to, the vibrator was born.As magical as vibrators and other toys are now when it comes to enriching our sex lives, Granville and other physicians of his time clearly weren't in search of a way to maximize a woman's pleasure.It's important to remember that these methods served as a means of 'curing' a woman's mental illness, but more importantly, it was yet another way of controlling a woman's sexual agency. The DSM, which stands for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is when it comes to diagnosing mental disorders.Again, we can shake our heads all we want at the pseudo-science of hysteria and wandering wombs, but the reality is.It took us literal centuries to officially do away with a blatantly preposterous term.

If that's how long it takes to eliminate a simple word from our vocabulary, imagine how long it must take to truly eradicate the stigma lurking behind it. We're still dealing with the fallout of this stigma to this day.' These are the words that countless women hear when they seek help from medical professionals. Gender stereotypes in the context of mental health are, without a doubt, still alive and well.And, as Maya Dusenbery, the editorial executive director at, told ThinkProgress in an interview, the stigma reaches outside the scope of mental illness: I think it's the same deeply rooted sexism that we see in other realms, like when it comes to not believing rape survivors. We don't trust women to be the experts on their own bodies, or to be reliable narrators of their own lives.But when that comes into the medical system, it's really dangerous.Moreover, these issues are exacerbated for women of color.African American women are reportedly than the general population to deal with serious mental health issues, and is not always receptive to open discussions of how to treat mental illness.We have to do better. And we can do better.Citations:,.