Hysterical’s earliest meaning was “of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria,” and while we now think of hysteria as irrational panic, it was, for centuries, a medical diagnosis. Hysteria comes from the Greek hysterikós, which means “suffering in the womb.” So, yeah, the ancient Greeks believed that when a woman was behaving irrationally—or in a way that they considered to be irrational—it was because her uterus was literally wandering around her body causing trouble. (The belief that the uterus was a free-floating organ persisted into the late Middle Ages.) A number of ailments and attitudes were blamed on hysteria, including nervousness, fainting, irritability, anxiety, boldness or outspokenness, sexual desire, and—no joke—the suffragist movement. |
It’s a dumb new thing related to all the non-binary nonsense. Like Xe/Xer pronouns or Latinx. |
I love the anonymity of Mrs John Smith. And that it's acceptable to be that anonymous as a woman-- men have no equivalent way to obscure their identity. |
It's pronounced like the racial slur "micks." Why they chose a racial slur as the new way to signal a progressive gender identity, I cannot say. |
OMG. I am sooo over this nonsense. And the whole LatinX thing seems universally hated in the Latino community. |
Why are married men called "Missed her"? It makes no sense?! Next year in third grade you'll learn about homophones. |
Mr Jane Jones, or Mr Jones for short. Or make up a name. |
Because my last name sounds better with Mrs. |
But "missed her" isn't offensive. A more analogous word would be "harassment." I'm old enough to remember the Anita Hill hearing when this became controversial because it sounded like "her a$$ meant." So for a while it became fashionable to call it "hair-ess-ment." In either case, both Mister and Harrassment are established words. Mx is a neologism (newspeak) so they literally invented a title that sounds like a slur against Irish people. Bizarre. I have to wonder if this is all just an elaborate game to see how far people can be pushed into self-debasement. Next thing you know, the popular salutation will be "namaste, donkey-face" and everyone will nod back in dutiful compliance. |
But why do we even need mr or ms? How about we ditch them both and just call people by their names? |
She wasn't responding to you jerk. |
Most languages have a formal tense, and we don't. So we use salutations and titles to indicate formality. |
Oh, wait. Now so we DO get to dictate how someone refers to themselves? So we feel like we can now mid-title someone who feels strongly that they want to be known as “Mrs.” because we don’t care for that title? Got it. So glad we can rely on you to tell us when this is okay. |
Well, I'm Gen X, well-educated and UMC and go by Mrs. So what. |
The women like PP are the women that communicate with all their actions that men aren't needed for a happy life, but then wonder why their sons are struggling... |