Hi, I like discussion. This so because I like language. And therefore, meaning.
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019, 04:32:04 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > Nobody believes this except for a few hysterical lunitics. I think you’re wrong about lunatism. I think though mob attacks can seem really lunatic, they’re made by disinformed persons that tend to keep a sort of consistence within the few, probably unsufficient, knowledge they have about the situations they get in. But now about “hysterical”, which has been hinted several times by several people (at least 3, maybe including me, I forgot) as a sexist insult. You’ve been noted that was biologically impossible, and said you didn’t care. Then, what’s you’re interpretation of it? is it just a random meaningless insult like “asshole”, just for people you don’t like? or is it more specific? for instance “crazy”? as it is used often for (after all, it comes from psychology (though from a part of it widely acknowledged as a pseudoscience). May I propose a popular definition? I find this term often used to describe women, but not only, being considered “too angry” (as the standard for acceptable feminine angriness generally meet a lower threshold, I guess), up to becoming irrational and uncontrolable (I take that from the third wiktionary definition, that talks about “uncontrolable laugh”). I often saw people talking about “being hysteric” (including from women, including about men) when someone is excessively shouting, especially when in a very acute manner (that might arise when the person is beyond per limits, and shout the loudest). It seems really linked to voice, to me. Yet that definition being popular, usually not well connected to the sexist origin (sometimes people aren’t even aware of), and not necessarily about women, it seems to, for evidence reasons of voice biological characteristics, more be prone to target women, based on this definition (loud acute voice). Now, what’s your definition? why do you qualify Sandra as such? She seems disgusted, maybe irrational (but you’re emotional too, here), but on the internet, she can’t shout… So what makes you say that? you only excessively dislike/hate people being against rms? or you think she’s crazy / so much irrational that deserve insults? so you think being crazy or irationnal make you deserve insult? or do you believe there’s a situation where a person could receive such insults calmly and agree?