{"id":114542,"date":"2022-08-20T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T01:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=114542"},"modified":"2022-08-20T20:38:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T01:38:52","slug":"doctor-curmudgeon-never-too-early-for-kittens-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=114542","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae Never Too Early for Kittens to Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=114542\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=114542\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-114543 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Juvenile_Ragdoll-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Juvenile_Ragdoll-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Juvenile_Ragdoll.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Renpet slowly came down the stairs, curled her tail around her and sunk into the couch (Renpet is the feline member of the Curmudgeon family, a former CIA agent who has supposedly retired).<\/p>\n<p>Her yowl sounded exhausted and frustrated. Seated across from her in his recliner was Galahad (the brilliant Siberian Husky, holder of several significant graduate degrees, her cousin form the canine side of the family. Gally, as he was known to the rest of the family, was responsible for the smooth running of the entire Curmudgeon household.)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pushing his reading glasses onto his forehead, and carefully folding his newspaper, the Husky turned to his cousin and inquired, \u201cWhat on earth is the matter? You\u2019ve been through emergency jumps from planes, dodged bullets, rescued individuals under dangerous circumstances\u2026.and not uttered one groan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust save me from cranky kittens!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Galahad\u2019s eyebrows rose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just that,\u201d continued Renpet, \u201cthey want me to read them a story that they choose and then they become impossible and cry because the story scares them\u2026and they want me to keep reading\u2026and then they throw their toys around the room and they cannot quiet down. Can\u2019t wait until my brother and sister-in-law get back from their vacation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat were you reading?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust what the little monsters insisted on. And they promised to go right to bed if I read some of it. Little liars! It was \u2018Frankenstein.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live and we learn,\u201d smiled Galahad. \u201cBut why did you read the novel written by Mary Shelley, when you could have read her mother\u2019s signature work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renpet slapped her forehead, \u201cYou\u2019re right, my cousin. I have a copy of the book by her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh,\u201d said Galahad. \u201cA marvelous idea. Even though it was published in 1792, it is a truly definitive work. I did read it in college. \u2018A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\u2019 And I even remember some quotes!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renpet nodded her head. \u201cMary Wollstonecraft was not only a superb writer, but she had to be very brave. Living in that era and advocating fiercely for women\u2019s rights. I recall that she had written this groundbreaker during the time of the French Revolution and it caused all kinds of debates across the British Empire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, Renpet, during the eighteenth century, women didn\u2019t have the same right to an education as men. There were double standards and it was felt that women were inferior to men. But Mary Wollstonecraft put forth the argument that if women seemed inferior, it was only because they were not allowed to have the same education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sighing, Renpet said, \u201cYou are so right. Wollstonecraft felt obligated to write her book as a reaction to Talleyrand&#8217;s report to the French National Assembly in 1791. He told them that women should only be allowed to receive a domestic education. She attacked him over his double standards and crafted her most important work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renpet continued, \u201cAnd I remember this quote from Talleyrand, \u2018Let us bring up women, not to aspire to advantages which the Constitution denies them, but to know and appreciate those which It guarantees them\u2026Men are destined to live on the stage of the world. A public education suits them\u2026The paternal home is better for the education of women; they have less need to learn to deal with the interests of others, than to accustom themselves to a calm and secluded life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to relieve the muscle spasms she had acquired from sitting on the little chair by the kittens\u2019 bed, Renpet arched out her back. \u201cIn those days, it was actually believed that women were inferior to men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leaning over to hug Renpet, Galahad grinned, \u201cThey never met you, Renpet!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me just say, that Wollstonecraft\u2019s arguments were very far ahead of her time, especially when she wrote about a national system of education to operate schools in which the sexes were mixed&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sitting back, and folding his forepaws across his chest, Galahad quoted from \u201cA Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\u201d \u201c&#8221;Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government\u2026 I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nodding her head, Renpet said, \u201cIndeed. It\u2019s time the little enfant terribles learned to think while I read a different kind of bedtime story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood luck with that,\u201d Galahad grinned as he returned to his newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Curmudgeon suggests &#8220;Bitter Medicine\u201d, Dr. Eugene Eisman&#8217;s story of his experiences&#8211;from the humorous to the intense&#8212;as a young army doctor serving in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Bitter Medicine by Eugene H. Eisman, M.D. &#8211;on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitter-Medicine-Doctors-Year-Vietnam\/dp\/0615874347\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae is Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D., a physician-satirist. This column originally appeared on SERMO, the leading global social network for doctors.<\/p>\n<p>SERMO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sermo.com\">www.sermo.com<\/a> \u201ctalk real world medicine\u201d<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist Renpet slowly came down the stairs, curled her tail around her and sunk into the couch (Renpet is the feline member of the Curmudgeon family, a former CIA agent who has supposedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29503],"class_list":["post-114542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-doctor-curmudgeon-never-too-early-for-kittens-to-learn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114542"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}