Most of the time people just call it “the Treatment.” As in, “Did you hear? Julie had the Treatment and now she’s barely smart enough to tie her shoes.”
The Treatment is a non-invasive medical procedure that substantially lowers a woman’s intelligence. It was popularized after a series of studies found that women of average-to-high intelligence are profoundly less happy than women of low-to-average intelligence. Of course feminists tried to point out that the problem wasn’t the women’s intelligence, it was society’s reaction to intelligent women, but it was a futile effort. Once the Treatment was introduced, it was sold as the ticket to happiness for women.
Unlike Permanent Nudity, you can’t be given the Treatment by a boss or a school. Your parents can have it done to you before you’re 18 (but it can’t be done before you’re 16), or you have to make the choice yourself. That said, there’s a whole industry set up to sell the Treatment to women and it’s become a shockingly socially acceptable thing to choose.
The Treatment doesn’t remove specific memories, but it makes your memory worse in general, and it leaves you virtually incapable of recalling most of what you learned in school – memories you lived yourself stick much better. Unlike the classic lobotomy, it doesn’t make you sluggish or weak willed, it just makes you an idiot. Short attention span, gullible, incapable of reason or logic.
Different women have different reactions to the Treatment. Some become playful and childlike. Some become wild and hedonistic. Some are totally shameless about their nudity (Permanent Nudity always goes along with the Treatment), while some find themselves even more embarrassed than they would have been before. And then there are those women who’ve had the Treatment who seem exactly the same as they were before, until you try to engage them in a real conversation and realize they can barely think.
There’s a myth among conservative religious types that the Treatment makes girls more moral. Families have it done to their daughters at 16 to keep them from becoming rebellious, slutty, or queer. But the rebellious ones stay rebellious, the slutty ones stay slutty, and the queer ones stay clear. And taking away their ability to make good decisions rarely helps with anything.
It’s a status symbol for rich women to get the Treatment, because it shows that they don’t have to be smart enough to earn money. Nevertheless, many women who do have to work get it done too. Some find themselves still able to do their work, and some find other jobs. Many overstressed lawyers, doctors, and college professors in desperate need of a break have visited Treatment Clinics and then happily found jobs as waitresses, housekeepers, and strippers.
And every once in a while, the Treatment goes badly. Occasionally women are left unable to speak, or to read or write, or with brains so empty they need full-time care. Sometimes these women are able to recover somewhat, but not always.
For most women, though, the Treatment gives you exactly what you want: A new life where thinking doesn’t get in the way. A life ruled by emotions, or by the smarter people around you, but never again by a brain that never did you any good when it still worked. A simpler life, as a simpler person.
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