Lighthearted (if possible on here?)

[Nogodsnomasters]

Why are you all so annoyed about the word hysterical being used to describe a woman? Even if she IS being hysterical!!? It's a perfectly good word.

OP tossed out some bait in hopes that it would provide an opportunity to slurp from the delicious chum bucket of outrage for themselves and the other misogynists haunting and hunting the boards.

The word only makes me think of one thing

@birdsdestiny you should have thought of that 3 comments ago.

You may be right. But I still win in the lighthearted competition. So cross, so very cross.

Yes after dealing with these responses is it any wonder? By the by I hardly think you come across as lighthearted in any sense of the word.

I have no idea why we Mere Women® get so annoyed every time a Helpful Mansplainer comes in to tell us how wrong we are.

@la afraid you'll find I'm a woman.

I am a feisty woman who can be shrill and sometimes nag.

Unlike most men who have strong opinions they must vocalise and needs which must be met.

Oh and I get hysterical like the time a big man held a knife to me. My foolish womb.

No, it's not possible to have a light hearted discussion here. Our humour sensors are removed when our Feminazi chips are inserted, and any return of fun is kept at bay by our straggliy leg and underarm hairs

@olennas I figured as much.

Does "goodnight" mean the op is off to bed [hopeful]?

I find that usually on mn an op says "why is this word offensive?", a fair few people explain why, and the op says "oops, sorry, won't use it again".

This thread has (unsurprisingly) not followed that norm . Here we have "why is this (totally innocuous, apparently) word offensive?", a lot of posters have explained why, and the op has said "tough shit you lot, you are a crowd of humourless (and probably hysterical) harpies, how dare you lot think I'm being offensive, I'm off to bed. Lovely.

No, OP is off making the same type of points in the same way about a different issue on another thread.

I can recommend the film Hysteria, about Victorian medical treatment which involved queuing up in the doctors for a half hour of clitoral stimulation. The doc got terrible RSI from curing so many women a day that he went on to invent a vibrator.

Light relief 😌

Does "goodnight" mean the op is off to bed [hopeful]?

For some it is a gesture of dismissal.
For others it is a low grade flounce.
When they fail to stick the flounce it does not become any clearer.
I could be wrong but I have suspected for a while that it is an internet version of
"I said good day, sir".

@thebewilderness you would be correct.

That would be because I'm not a troll. Not everyone who has an opposite opinion is a troll you know? And if that is your stance then you must spend far too much time online.

What is thebewilderness right about? The churnbucket of outrage or the low grad flounce?

What is your opinion on my great grandmother's diagnosis of "hysteria" op? The one that had her admitted to a psych unit for 30 years? Is that lighthearted in your view?

@maryz why did you only give me two options on what she could be right about? Because they were the only two you wanted me to choose from.... Strange point of argument. She was right about the first one dismissal was the intention of my using the phrase goodnight. Why is that important to you?

Why are you demanding my opinion on your relatives? Just because one person's great grandmother had this word used against her whether correctly or incorrectly doesn't mean the word shalt never be used again!! 🙄. Im not here to make conclusions on your relative who I know nothing of or about but for all we know she was hysterical (in the current sense of the word meaning unable to control emotions, overwhelmingly frightened, grieved etc) she may have had post partum psychosis and not just the standard pnd, many things could be possible for this situation but alas I am not psychic I'm afraid.

I'm not demanding anything. I'm asking a few questions, if that's ok?

About my family: the question was whether you think I should consider the word "hysterical" to be lighthearted (as per your op), considering the major impact it had on my family. I don't find it lighthearted, or funny; I'm surprised that you don't appear to understand that.

[arf] at you "dismissing" everyone on the thread . Are you hoping everyone will just agree with you? Or shut up? Mumsnet threads don't generally work like that. When the op is a twat, people tend to tell them so, even if they do flounce.

That would be because I'm not a troll. Not everyone who has an opposite opinion is a troll you know?

The troll hunting on this thread is tiresome and against MNHQ guidelines. Equally tiresome is the assumption that you must be a man.

If you are a troll and/or a man then I admire the time you have spent posting on various child related/ development/ health forums to build up an online persona that you are a mother of children. You even mentioned your pregnancy a few times for added verisimilitude. How clever of you- or, maybe, playing a wild card here- you are just a woman with a different opinion.

@lasswi praise jesus, someone who sees sense 😊. Thank you