Fiddle-dee-dee! One too many mint juleps, I reckon.

I swan! Them Southern Belles sure get the vapors a lot, don't they? My! How it makes them swoon! Mayhaps she needs to go repose on the veranda!

[Update: Mayhaps some lout suggested to her that men and women are different. This, as is shown in the following, has in the past brought on similar results:]

Statistically, this is undeniable. But Summers' suggestion there might be a link between heredity and intelligence, between maleness and an aptitude for higher math, just as there is between gender and strength, caused one female Ph.D. to react as though she had been gassed.

"I felt I was going to be sick," said biology professor Nancy Hopkins of MIT. "My heart was pounding, and my breath was shallow."

"I just couldn't breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill." Had she not fled from the room, said Hopkins, "I would've either blacked out or thrown up."