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Originally Posted by haertig
Nor am I. What I am bothered by, is being accused, implied, or whatever you want to call it - of being sexist. Because I used a common word in a common context in an innocent way. A context so common and innocent that it appears in multiple dictionary examples illustrating how to use the word.
Yet, you are offended by that. Rather than roll over and grovel at your feet and agree to cancel the word "hysterical" from the English language
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The above is a histrionic response. I have repeatedly acknowledged that, although the knowledge that this word is sexist is fairly widespread* (it's pretty much universally known in my circles, for example), you were not personally aware of that. I've not requested money or grovelling or abasement or an apology. I've politely asked that you consider alternatives going forward (and provided some); something I obviously have no power to demand or require. Given your response here, I suspect your answer is a flat "no", but it's possible someone else has learned something, so *shrug*. Moving on.
(I'll certainly be pretty bloody suspicious the next time someone yells "well if you had asked POLITELY instead of being so ANGRY I might have listened to what you had to say!")
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* I did give you plenty of useful keywords with which you could have searched for yourself. You could start here, for example, not an especially unknown website, if you wanted to know more (though the last section is pretty nonsensical and needs work)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria
https://browse.tedxvienna.at/blog/20...d-here-is-why/
https://www.vwt.org.au/why-hysteria-is-a-loaded-word/