Librarything is a fun club for bibliomaniacs. I joined the EARLY REVIEWERS club. They send me books to read and review. I have just started reading the latest send, [COPING WITH POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER by Cheryl A. Roberts]. I have hardly read past the Introduction, but that much is quite interesting. And it has occured to me why some of us, women, do not want to read books like Siberian Education [see older blog posts] or, like me, can't bring my self to watch Mel Gibson's movie about Christ's crucifixion or see Schindler's List. When another person is trying to help another overcome their traumatic experience, it is possible that the helping person will also begin to incorporate the stress into themselves, feeling what the victim is feeling. So I ask you, are we not, as women, extremely likely to want to help victims and do we not feel things [probably] before having any other response? So if these books or films, or even conversations create in us something we automatically resist, are we not reacting with a survival response in trying to avoid it? There are things I cannot even hear about without becoming almost physically ill. There is stuff from movies and/or books that still haunts me. I cannot bear it. Anyway, I am off on a tangent, but to Marie and Diane who refuse to read books that tell awful tales, you are right to ignore them. And there appears to be very good reason to do so because women are more sensitive in this way. Anyway, that's my opinion...thought you might be interested... and it's true. ^.^)

Addendum: comment on the comments. I think all of you ladies are wonderful women. All of you are truly amazing and really great role models for everyone, especially me, and I am thankful for it. I love you all. ^.^)