Faculties of masculinity—to repress emotion, to not visibly suffer, to not be affected— were superimposed on the “nerves” of men much like a woman’s hysterical tendencies were attributed to her “nerves”. One sees clearly, the fiction of such mechanistic attributions of behavior to the body, as in both instances the same cause--active nerves—result in entirely different behavior: for men, it is a weakness of the nerves (see neurasthenia as a male analogue to hysteria) that makes them sensitive (more liable to sense things via their nerves) and thereby de-masculinized, but in women it was the power of the nerves that made them hysterical. The differential treatment of "the language of the senses" by gender demonstrating its flexibility also uncovers the fallacy of the logic of the senses applied in clinical renderings of hysteria.