Females are hysterical!
They fly off the handle very easily. I feel comfortable with this assertion. This statement is justifiable and not grounds for misogyny, sorry. More than other “genderalizations,” I feel this is one of the more defensible.
Women take things too seriously. It’s as if they really believe they have any control over this life. Women make horrible nihilists. Woman’s nature tells her everything can, and should be, remedied, as long as she can inject the right amount of meddlesome and obsessive measures. Females believe nothing is beyond repair and this classically applies to their appraisal of men who god knows are quite often intractable louts and vermin. Women believe things really do matter because they simply…matter. Women are not philosophically inclined to question the substance of meaning other than the superficial solipsistic symbolism they attach to the items in their lives. In this manner, they tend to attribute way too much relevance to themselves, their material environment, and their loved ones. When you devote such a hearty amount of intrinsic value to anything, you tend to obsess over it, and feeling as such that everything is directly manipulable by your actions, you tend to devote way too much of your ego, and thus you take things seriously, and furthermore, become an anxious wreck over garbage you ultimately have no control.
The legacy of the “learned helplessness” that the female has cultivated over millions of years of evolution still lives, still implores. A learned helplessness that stems from being the weaker gender fraught with physical powerlessness. As the new age of equality has dawned, it’s not like women can just turn off this learned helplessness evolutionary mechanism. It still resides deep in their soul even though the full breadth of their modern trappings highlight a person who has every bit of power and equality as the male who reigned over her for ages.
Learned helplessness is not “bad” when you are in fact helpless. But learned helplessness in the hands of someone who is not helpless is rather noxious to the society.
This learned helplessness is what causes women to be hysterical, anxiety-ridden train wrecks, but now, by virtue of their modern power and equality, they can foist their weak pall over society at large and we all pay the price of meddlesome busy-bodied intrusions. This is not something I’m making up. Women are more anxious and fretful than men. There is a reason the word hysterical has etymological roots in female reproductive physiology. Men throughout time have witnessed and noted the outlandish and unrestrained behavior of the female.
Women panic. They freak out. It’s their nature. This is why they sigh often, this is why they roll their eyes and why they are priggish and overly critical and materialistic. This is all because of this reactive outlook that paints their perspective: everything must be fixed if it’s broken and the disreputable notion that life is inherently flawed and people inherently broken is toxic and foreign to the female mind. Everything can be fixed and thus, everything should be worried over while concurrently being deconstructed by an endless diarrhea of expression, meetings, committees and bureaucracy. In fact, the word bureaucracy should really have roots in female physiology as well. Perhaps the word would be something like hysteraucracy.
And a “hysteraucracy” is exactly what the rise of female power in the today’s Western world has rewarded us with. An intrusive, delusional persistence that will slowly dismantle human freedom and wanderlust because every time someone gets hurts, this hysteraucracy convenes any number of committees to address the problem in the most dramatic fashion possible in order to ensure it never happens again.
Because we all know….no one will ever get hurt again, right?

“Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that’s horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our _informed_ opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it’s nothing. It’s just bibble-babble. It’s like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.” –Harlan Ellison
I’ve always believed Ellison’s observation to be horsepuckey in itself.
Essentially everything he said can be applied to all opinions. All of them.
Relevance, scientific or scholarly thoroughness, mean nothing because ultimately all data is twisted in the court of public opinion. I’ll agree with him that all opinions are in fact farts in the wind. Opinions mean nothing, they change nothing, they are lost in the din of bullshit that people spout, something more obvious and ubiquitous thanks to the internet where everyone’s opinion can finally transcend the wind.
Even the most self-apparent, logically conclusive data can be called out by fringe groups who can manipulate data and facts. Ultimately, opinions only spawn more opinions. They are the cancer of discourse. So to attempt to refute an opinion by demeaning it as just an opinion is intellectually lazy.
BTW, “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” is one of the great science fiction short stories all time!
“So to attempt to refute an opinion by demeaning it as just an opinion is intellectually lazy.”
Perhaps, but so is writing “This statement is justifiable” without justifying it.
Aimee!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was wondering what would finally bring you out of the woodwork.
I was planning to stay in lurk mode and let it go–then I remembered that quote. Though I do believe we are all entitled to our opinions, gut feelings, instincts, etc.–too often these things are conflated with facts.
The reference to hysteria was fuel on the fire, given that it is a bullshit diagnosis that has been long since tossed into the dustbin of medical history along with the vapors and unbalanced humors.
You’ve been lurking quite awhile.
I think “trigger words/phrases” are fascinating. Hysteria used in the context I did is definitely a trigger. I’m kinda fond of the word I made up.
“Creep/Creepy” is a likewise a trigger word for much of the Malesphere.
I do love neologisms. However, there’s already a term for governmental-hover-parenting which seems to work in the context of this post: The Nanny State.