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Ironic that you use "hysterical" to attack a book about overwhelming male culture. A note on the word's etymology: It's a word with a very female-baiting hi
by kevmo 9y ago
Ironic that you use "hysterical" to attack a book about overwhelming male culture. A note on the word's etymology:
It's a word with a very female-baiting history,
coming from the Latin hystericus ("of the womb").
This was a condition thought to be exclusive to women –
sending them uncontrollably and neurotically insane owing
to a dysfunction of the uterus (the removal of which is
still called a hysterectomy).
https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2012/mar/08/mind-your-language-feminisation-madness https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2012/ma...