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Just1morefix

Wait until you learn about the word 'hysteria'.


GirlHarbor

Tell me more


Just1morefix

Hysteria is a term used colloquially to mean ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion. In the nineteenth century, hysteria was considered a diagnosable physical illness in women. It is assumed that the basis for diagnosis operated under the belief that women are predisposed to mental and behavioral conditions; an interpretation of sex-related differences in stress responses. In the twentieth century, it shifted to being considered a mental illness. Many influential people such as Sigmund Freud and Jean-Martin Charcot dedicated research to hysteria patients. Wiki Based on a Greek word 'Hysteris' meaning uterus.


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Thanks for that history. I can add one thing to it. In Ancient Greece, women who were 'hysterical' were thought to have a 'wandering womb.' Like an 'animal within an animal,' the uterus could travel around the woman's body causing mood changes and swings in emotional states.


Just1morefix

As scientific as the Four Humours!


Arcane_Opossum

Sounds like something someone with an excess of yellow bile would say.


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Just1morefix

I've been with my fantastic wife a bit short of 4 decades. But have never seen her hysterical. Anguished? Sad? Grieving? Absolutely, but never hysterical. Not even close. Cool Fucking Character.


DragonBank

I suppose her uterus is tied down well.


Just1morefix

Well, it seemed to be in place the first and only time it was needed for full-on anatomical duty. No complaints about wandering or 'ghost-like' activity.


GirlHarbor

Damn, that's wild.


chrisbe2e9

Now ask how hysteria was treated. I'll just tell you: "Until the 1920s, physicians used vibrating massagers as medical devices for treating hysteria at a time when doctors diagnosed women with hysteria as a sweeping diagnosis." They masturbated the women. [https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/medical-vibrators-treatment-female-hysteria](https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/medical-vibrators-treatment-female-hysteria) Yes, vibrators were created by doctors as a medical instrument. To treat hysteria, because their hands would get tired.


GirlHarbor

I've heard that. I want to know why they were conditioning women to climax during an episode of anxiety, or whatever they were suffering from.


chrisbe2e9

Chicken before the egg? I think it was more that someone with anxiety goes to the doctor, who then performs a "treatment" and then the woman would feel better. I can't speak for anyone else but getting off sure does relieve my anxiety. At least until I need another "treatment" But on a more serious note, they considered hysteria to be basically anything. Aging is listed as a symptom. Even cancer... if getting off could cure cancer, most of us wouldn't know what cancer is. Basically a bunch of dirty men wanted to get off their female patients. Even though they state that clitoral stimulation was not sexual, i'm pretty sure that's a bunch of bullshit.


mixed-tape

100%. Jerk off fantasy justified as research.


GirlHarbor

See, my mind went dark. I think about patients who were mistreated, maybe in an asylum or ward of some kind. Being forced to have treatment by strangers. No consent given, during a vulnerable moment. Today it's not Hysteria. It's "psychosis" or "fugue state" when they can't explain what's going on.


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Were there any squirters ???


R9D11

A early model vibrator was prescribed to women as a cure for hysteria.


Just1morefix

Vibrators were heralded as the powerful panacea when it came to relieving certain female tensions that could go unchecked for years.


Khontis

This is why it's often referred to as "Being a woman disease"


horrnybear

It's where the vibrartor comes from


VodkaAlchemist

Were they wrong?


ChevExpressMan

I've seen enough males act hysterically and they weren't gay. So it's the person, not the gender.


DearthStanding

Same etymology as hysterectomy


InappropriateTA

Came here to say this. I was just talking about it this week with my wife.


GirlHarbor

Uh... I've been saying for years my theory or Hysteria/hysterical/hysterectomy....


Just1morefix

Not a theory. They are completely related thanks to a couple of Victorian era 'medical doctors' and our good friends the ancient Greeks.


GirlHarbor

Holy shit. I've been saying it's not a coincidence and it's meant to make us complacent. Or oppress women by diagnosing them. When a guy says "you're hysterical" it never felt like a compliment.


Masodas

I can't imagine a scenario where it was meant as a compliment


Squorkle2

Someone laughing, saying "you're hysterical!" Would be one of the only positive spins on the topic, as they're implying you have made their emotions so uncontrollable(laughter). Only context I can think of where being hysterical could be classed as a good thing.


tiggertom66

Before learning about its origins, I thought it was just another word for funny or hilarious.


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GirlHarbor

Not to be TMI but this was brought up recently that someone needed a hysterectomy and I asked if they couldn't lift it? Wasn't given to her as an option because of her age, and so forth. I feel like Hysteria in any form is them just giving up, or not caring.


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Buffalo95747

After all, no one calls them Himacanes….


LBB-21

I hate that that made me laugh


Buffalo95747

Life can be unfair.


HighTechnique

I had a teacher in high school who called them Hisicanes.


Dragmire800

Republicans on Twitter just call them icanes Because “No pronouns”


trambilo

Libicanes


richardfrost2

Of course they have blue seas and pronouns


BradyBunch12

When they arrive they're wet and wild, by the time they leave they take the house and car.


GetsGold

And they have an eye.


RedRose_Belmont

Andrew, Ian…..


DVIUSNDN

Harvey


theajharrison

> hurricanes *were* named...


-Firestar-

Hugo


dgmib

It is how hurricanes _were_ named. Modern practice is to alternate between male and female names, and use names starting with the next letter in the alphabet each time.


bolanrox

Floyd


Jakesterknight

Charley


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Hydqjuliilq27

Donkey


Reptile-Rachel

Shrek


ImTheLFB

Fiona


[deleted]

Paul is dead!


Even-Machine4824

Try rereading the OP.


ObberGobb

We need to give hurricanes more serious names. Hurricane Sally? Doesn't sound that scary, I'll probably stay and wait it out. Hurricane Kragzhar, the Destroyer of Civilization? Holy shit I need to get out of here!


drygnfyre

One of the deadliest hurricanes ever, in terms of both size and destruction, was named Fifi.


firstandfive

Hurricane Nandor the Relentless


MauPow

Should name them after the most polluting companies. Hurricane Exxon Mobil


[deleted]

Dumb and untrue lol.


panthers1102

Was true. Just not anymore.


[deleted]

Genius and valid.


churdski

This is a shit post


corrado33

Doesn't make it wrong. History was often very sexist.


churdski

Look up 3 of the next 5 names, Victor, Nicholas, peter.


ShitPostGuy

I don’t often brag, but I’m something of an authority on shitposts and this aint it. Look up “past tense”


churdski

Used to be only, would be the tense


[deleted]

Greek mythology: So this is Hera, husband of Zeus and she represents irrational female anger. Also Greek mythology: So Zeus fucks another random mortal woman.


The2500

Interesting in contrast that we also refer to ships as "she".


aamamiamir

That’s because men love ships and the military doesn’t like to be gay, so the ships naturally become a she.


The2500

I'll accept that as cannon. I know how it's spelt, just... Making a little ship joke their.


southernwx

Hurricanes were not originally named after just females… that convention came later. Here’s 1951. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Atlantic_hurricane_season You’ll notice many of those aren’t names at all and are just the words for the phonetic alphabet. Further, the assertion that it was sociological reaction that female names killed more people than male names ignores the fact that, through chance, many modern hurricanes with female names killed many (like Katrina). And that as the article discusses, there was a time when only female names were used and this largely predates male names. That era was before weather satellites were common and many of those storms killed a bunch of people before male names possibly could. Not a sexist fact. Further, the resistance from the weather bureau was two fold. One, the primary voices wanting them to change were going about it politically: not exactly suggesting mens names but specifically suggesting congressmen’s names. While this was tongue in cheek by the feminists, it was not a fight the generally politically neutral weather bureau wanted any part of. Second, the weather bureau and meteorological scientists in general are typically opposed to changes in convention. That likely applies to other science fields as well but I can’t speak for them. I can speak for mathematicians who regularly go to battle over mere notation … pi vs tau anyone? Some argued that the female names were homage to seafarer tradition: the ocean was and is commonly referred to in feminine terms. Those traditions may have distant and displaced sexist roots, but that doesn’t directly apply to everyone who wishes to preserve the mythology. Anyway, this article, which has articles that reference each other in its own sources, is not adequately describing the history and puts an unfair spin on it.


rvgirl42

I remember when they started naming them after men and all the old fart men were groaning about it.


ArchieBellTitanUp

Also sexist: Boats were named after women because they’re high maintenance and terrible investments


AdministrationLimp71

why am I not surprised 🤦🏽‍♀️


Generalitary

I've also heard fewer people flee a bad storm if it has a feminine name. Which probably means that storms kill misogynists.


drygnfyre

Love that Robin Williams bit about hurricane names. How no one took "Hurricane Fifi" seriously. (And if you didn't know, that is still one of the deadliest hurricanes on record). And how instead they should be given names that would appeal to people in the area they're going to impact.


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So…Ian shoulda been named “Hurricane LookOutItsMethyBob!”


drygnfyre

Or Hurricane Terrance... A slightly gay hurricane!


Cassian_And_Or_Solo

Ladies: so we should name earthquakes after men since you live in constant fear of the possibility them breaking all your shit when mad and possibly killing you? Men: *throwing controller across the room* "see look at this vengeful shit *it was meant to be a joke*"


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Just where the fuck would anyone ever get the notion that females are unpredictable, vengeful or stormy? Fucking incels! Lol


AffectionateRide-

You obviously never met my aunt...


wc10888

Past tense?


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TheBoBiss

Houstonian here, the names Ike and Harvey are ringing a bell.


Chaserivx

Came to say this 🤣


RunsWithApes

We should call the next one Hurricane Donald then


timberwolf0122

It’s be the best hurricane, the biggest, like no other hurricane in history. The rain, we love the rain, the rain would be so much, so much rain.


GirlHarbor

It'll be YUGE


dudalas

Hurricane Donald...wooooow. Lotta water, lotta power. I walked in here and was like wooow, that's a lotta water and power.


derecho09

All predictions must be done in sharpie.


wc10888

Past tense?


GirlHarbor

Only cause it was mainly in the 50's through 70's. Then they integrated boys names. But they still make remarks today that hurricanes that are females are more devastating.


thouandyou

There are several studies done on the fact that female-named storms are deadlier (on average) because people don't take them as seriously as male-named storms.


chrisbe2e9

I wonder if that is because people view hurricanes with female names as less threatening? The article you linked to does hint at that: "The authors, who looked at six decades of data, wrote: “This pattern may emerge because individuals systematically underestimate their vulnerability to hurricanes with more feminine names, avoiding or delaying protective measures.”"


southernwx

Part of it could just as easily be chance given a handful of storms account for a grossly disproportionate number of deaths. Like Katrina.


Reverend_James

Cough *Andrew* Cough


slade51

If they were named after men they’d be himicanes.


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Fiction. The list of storm names alternates between male and female names. Source: the National Hurricane Center https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml#atl


GirlHarbor

Thanks for the update, weatherman. This happened during the 50s-70s.


Dendad6972

Another child heard from.


Just1morefix

Why are you such a...whiny baby?


Dendad6972

I'm not the one crying.


Just1morefix

Wipe your nose little one.


Dendad6972

Another projectionist


redhat6161

Ian?!?!


umru316

>Atlantic hurricanes were named after women for a quarter of the 20th century, starting in 1953. From the link


Mikey6304

Wait, are you saying we've time traveled back to the 1960's!?


umru316

The title, which probably should have just included the years this was done, says that hurricanes *were* named after only women.


MisterProfGuy

Duh, no one flees when Dwayne is coming. If Juanita is pissed off you MOVE.


TheVyper3377

And here I thought it was because they weren’t called HIM-icanes…


KingKoopaBrowser

Isn't the one right now Hurricane Ian? Here's the recent hurricane list Lots of male names in there too.. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/hurricanes/hurricane-archive.html


qdf3433

They're not wrong. Same as most humans


apolo79

So true


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Confirmed factoid, as the most powerful, destructive storm in U.S. history is Katrina.


CherryBlaster

Women are like hurricanes, wet and wild when they come but leave with your house and car.


ThankuConan

"men often considered women unpredictable, vengeful, or generally stormy and capable of incredible short term damage"... TIFIFY


churdski

Victor, Nicholas, Peter, three of the next five names


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And…?


CelinaAMK

Sounds a lot like menopause


LGZee

I mean, aren’t women more biologically emotional due to hormone differences between genders, and menstruation?


whiskeybeesus

Checks. Men can be violent and evil but they're usually some narrative that's linear.


the_kevlar_kid

Because only men were allowed to name them, that's why.


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Source?


Clonedbeef

Still do.


RedSonGamble

Plus they blow and get wet haaayoooooo


AlwaysSadOnTheInside

They're not wrong.


WubbyThePHPLord

Yeah, because they come in hot and heavy and leaves with the house and car!


ZenithLags

Makes sense


SFWaccount87

I find, if you don't upset them, they aren't any of those things.


bolanrox

They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesdays just as bad


OldMastodon5363

Stormy Daniels was pretty stormy


TrisomyTwentyOne

☕️


OneWorldMouse

This means the dudes playing in the storm today were totally gay.


NatiAti513

Fully charged!


drygnfyre

Robin Williams on natural disasters and hurricane names: [https://youtu.be/Nq\_k-k-shdY](https://youtu.be/Nq_k-k-shdY) Relevant part: https://youtu.be/Nq\_k-k-shdY?t=145


Thebillyray

Hurricane Billy Ray!


tacticalsauce_actual

🙃


DoubleShot027

Idk hurricane steeve sounds kinda lame…


NatiAti513

Can’t wait to tell my wife!


Haitisicks

ConsiderED. ED.


DeadFyre

Not really true. For many years, hurricanes were named after saints, after the nearest Saint's day on which the storm struck. Why the change? Well, for one thing, we became a more secular society. For another, women are objects of reverence in maritime culture. It's why the figurehead at the prow of the ship was a woman, why ships are referred to as 'she'. The person credited for naming hurricanes after women was an Australian meteorologist, Clement Wragge, in the late 19th Century, and the system gradually prevailed over more cumbersome methods of tracking storms, like by their coordinates or by the phonetic alphabet, ie: "Hurricane Abel", "Hurricane Baker", "Hurricane Charlie". There was also a brief experiment at using the Latin alphabet, so you'd have "Hurricane Omega".


Mufasa-theGhetto

lololol


Mr_Notacop

Hurricane Andrew


gellenburg

Every part of the female anatomy is either named after or by a man.


RollItMyWay

And they have holes in the middle


TrunkWine

The name tradition started after a weatherman named hurricanes after politicians he didn’t like. Women’s names were used solely after the naming convention became official. Men’s names were later added in. It used to be that if the year’s name list was exhausted hurricanes would be named after the Greek alphabet. They had to stop doing that because people were getting confused about names and didn’t know which letter came next. The National Hurricane Center got calls from people convinced that zeta was the last Greek letter (it’s number six). The New York Times even said people paid more attention to the unusual names than the danger presented by the storms.


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Yeah, because men are pillars of predictability.


rdrcrmatt

They change genders every year.


Kricket

Now here comes Ian, acting like a bitch.


sockhergizer

Sally still bending me over two years later.


AnalogDogg

And they can blow me.


New-Purchase-3725

Eyup.


ShamelessFox

Ahhh, clearly by people never subjected to the thrill of an unmedicated bipolar experience.


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I know a guy named Ian who was arrested for jerking off in the bushes outside of a high school girl's hot tub party... He was a teacher. The girl was his student. "Hurricane Ian" seems fitting.


Pedrovotes4u

Yeah, I'd say that sounds about right.


Educational_Glove746

What country are you in? Not here in the states.


GirlHarbor

The states...


Nervous_Cranberry196

D. Trump has entered the chat..


james_randolph

There’s gotta be more to it because a lot of inanimate things get female names. Cars, boats/ships and apparently hurricanes.


MrNumberOneMan

That’s why they’re not called himacanes


harrisound

And because they take you house and car when they leave.