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Originally Posted by meeera
I for one am getting pretty sick of certain sources who are blowing off any concern at all about a complication that disproportionately affects premenopausal women as "hysterical".
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The concerns are not hysterical, but in general, the media is - the way they word their headlines. This is a very common term used to describe attention grabbing headlines. Do you not know the definition of the word? Here is what Merriam-Webster says about it - they even use the media as an example in describing hysteria:
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hysterical adjective
hys·ter·i·cal | \ hi-ˈster-i-kəl How to pronounce hysterical (audio) \
Definition of hysterical
1: of, relating to, or marked by hysteria
hysterical conditions
2: feeling or showing extreme and unrestrained emotion
hysterical fans
… the paper did not hesitate to appeal to racial passions in hysterical headlines and rabid editorials.
— The New Yorker
3informal : very funny
a hysterical movie/joke
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Check it out right here on their webpage if you don't believe my quote above:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hysterical
You evidently do not understand this common use of the word in describing media headlines, and have offended yourself because you are assigning some other meaning that was never the intention here.