I don’t really like the history/connotation of hysterical bc it was a term used to dismiss and institutionalize women in the past but in 60% of common usage i can see the speaker doesnt mean that. Its in our culture like spooky and has a more modern light
yeah in this case a friend had called me that, and the point of the story was I'd been proven right by subsequent events, I was complaining bec the label was inaccurate not bec I found it offensive
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