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Cirque du So-What

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Reply to njhoneybadger (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 02:10 PM

Feb 2018

I've even curtailed my use of 'hysterical' due to its etymological (Greek & Latin) inference that 'hysteria' was a condition peculiar to females due to their possession of a uterus.

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Can we not use the word "bitchy"? [View all] left-of-center2012 Feb 2018 OP

Try "grumpy" or "sarcastic" or "mean" DBoon Feb 2018 #1

Don't use it njhoneybadger Feb 2018 #2

☝ This right here ☝ Cirque du So-What Feb 2018 #7

Say what you feel. Cattledog Feb 2018 #3

It might be safer if used on men folk like Limbaugh/Jones/Hannity. Corvo Bianco Feb 2018 #4

Context is the key, I believe. You used it as a synonym for complaining. Had you called Megan FSogol Feb 2018 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author left-of-center2012 Feb 2018 #6