Let me get the thesis of the post out of the way first. The post asserts that the word "overreacting" is unproductive to discussion. If someone's emotional rea

Let me get the thesis of the post out of the way first. The post asserts that the word "overreacting" is unproductive to discussion. If someone's emotional reaction is genuine, i.e. represents how they feel, then you or I may think it's 100% bogus and invalid, but their response to the word "overreacting" is still going to be negative. Now what I meant by "genuine"--and I'm open to learning that I used the word incorrectly--is that it represents how they feel. The alternative, to me, is when someone feigns anger or distress in order to consciously manipulate people.