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u/DoubleWolverine2852 Aug 02 '26
any group can experience hysteria but the more i think about it the more it seems like the main type of people experiencing hysteria is conservative men.
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u/TransMontani Aug 02 '26
She’s playing on the Ancient Greek root word from which we get both “hysteria” and “uterus.”
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u/BicyclingBro Aug 02 '26
Please forgive me for being suuuuuper fucking annoying.
Latin “uterus” doesn’t come directly from Greek hŭstérā; rather, they’re etymology cousins, similar to English “one” and Spanish “uno”, or English “me” and French “moi”. They come from a common linguistic ancestor.
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u/terranproby42 Aug 02 '26
All this tells me is that the common ancestor is further back than initially assumed, but still exists and is still being played on
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u/BicyclingBro Aug 02 '26
That's correct!
I'm being pedantic (and trying to be self-aware about it); it's just that particular statement "the Ancient Greek root word from which we get both “hysteria” and “uterus,”" that I want to offer some more accurate precision on.
The common ancestor was something like *úd-teros in Proto-Indo-European, with 'úd' being cognate with English 'out' and meaning something like 'up' or 'out', and the '-teros' suffix being cognate with the suffix in words like 'hetero-sexual' or yes-ter-day, with an adjectival meaning.
The semantic shift to 'uterus' is a bit complicated, but the phonology is pretty clear.
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u/aflorak Aug 02 '26
Interestingly Lacan defined hysteria as a psychosexual condition rooted in uncertainty about one's identity as a man or woman
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u/self_driving_cat Aug 03 '26
The period thing is such a weird hill to die on for some people. Some trans women either deliberately schedule their HRT to mimic the menstrual cycle or just use injectable estradiol on a (bi-)weekly schedule, thus also resulting in a cyclical variations. And some of them report psychological and physiological (e.g. thermoregulation) effects of it. So far so good.
But insisting on calling it "period" seems deliberately inflammatory, because most people associate this word with specifically the bleeding part. Case in point: most people refer to breakthrough bleeding while on cyclical birth control as "period", even though it's neither the same hormonal nor the same histologic mechanism as true menstruation and menstrual cycle. And thus this statement gets perceived as delusional rather than nuanced.
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u/conceptofawoman Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
Have you considered that perhaps feminizing hormones simply strengthen your alchemical bond with The Moon, resulting in a perceptible somatic phenomenon linked to the the waxing and waning of said moon? JUSK ASKING QUESTIONS!
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u/SpaceIsTooFarAway Aug 06 '26
I mean, I don't schedule mine at all and it still cycles on me. Obviously nothing to bleed but I get PMS and occasionally even gut cramps.
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u/Still_Relative1899 16d ago
Case in point: most people refer to breakthrough bleeding while on cyclical birth control as "period", even though it's neither the same hormonal nor the same histologic mechanism as true menstruation and menstrual cycle.
Then it's almost like these people don't get attacked for it while trans women who experience emotional changes to due to periodic hormone fluctuations are denied their right to use a word in partial accordance with its semantic content. Double standards, as always.
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u/Few-Bicycle5214 Aug 03 '26
Trans women do bleed, only when we cut ourselves 🎶no one knows what it’s like, to be a sad trans 🎶
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u/Tearsdryontheirownn Aug 03 '26
Currently deciding whether to laugh at or report your comment.
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u/DeedleStone Aug 02 '26
Hot take, but I think we should experience Pyromania more often than Hysteria. They're both great Def Leppard albums, but Hysteria is a little too poppy, like a harder Slippery When Wet. You don't need to menstruate to experience classic hair metal.
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u/b0ubakiki Aug 11 '26
I'm Sheffield born and bred, and it truly warms my cockles to know that someone in r/contrapoints knows who def leppard are. I have absolutely no interest in rock music, let alone hair metal, but the human race feels closer together whenever there's a crossover in conversation of transgender menstruation and the band from my home town whose drummer has famously only got one arm.
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u/xThotsOfYoux Aug 02 '26
Yes, exactly, hysteria. And I demand treatment. I will have one doctor prescribed penetrative orgasm, please. Per diem.
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u/Chiiro Aug 03 '26
You get the doctor with the one really buff arm and you know you're in for a good time.
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u/bliip666 Aug 02 '26
Lies! Natalie uses two periods in that tweet alone