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William Shatner says some women use the #MeToo movement ‘as a weapon

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-24 06:26|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 hysterical (adj.)

1610s, "characteristic of hysteria," the nervous disease originally defined as a neurotic condition peculiar to women and thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the uterus; literally "of the womb," from Latin hystericus "of the womb," from Greek hysterikos "of the womb, suffering in the womb," from hystera "womb," from PIE *udtero-, variant of *udero- "abdomen, womb, stomach" (see uterus).

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-24 06:55|| 2018-12-24 06:55|| Front Page Top

#2 An old white man having spent years in zero-gravity environments. What can he possibly know ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-24 07:05|| 2018-12-24 07:05|| Front Page Top

#3 There is some hysteria, but some grifters have weaponized the #MeToo movement as the latest Kavanaugh hearings show. All that happens with most movements, that doesn't mean the core of the movement is false.

Posted by ruprecht 2018-12-24 08:39|| 2018-12-24 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 doesn't mean the core of the movement is false
True in a limited way. Now & then I meet a sincere person, but I meet far more hypocrites and circus performers. "Everybody lies" - Dr. House

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-12-24 09:43|| 2018-12-24 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 And on the other hand, a fair number of "hysterical outbursts" from female patients have been among the most sincere things I have ever heard.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-12-24 09:48|| 2018-12-24 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Lots of Hollywood "ladies"(and closted male actors) are casting couch hookers.

When the hush money or parts run out it goes from MeetYou to MeToo.

It explains why a lot of films have terrible actors.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-12-24 12:49|| 2018-12-24 12:49|| Front Page Top

Posted by Boss Spoper5850 2018-12-24 14:46|| 2018-12-24 14:46|| Front Page Top

#8 James Kirk, paraphrased: "But the instinct can be fought. We're men beings with a million savage years of being blamed for the behavior of the worst among us, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're horndogs, but we're not going to grope women today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't grope today."

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-24 17:55|| 2018-12-24 17:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Well said, M. Murcek.

a fair number of "hysterical outbursts" from female patients have been among the most sincere things I have ever heard.

Sincere is not the same as true or correct, Anguper Hupomosing9418. Like that witness against Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, whose little adventure turned out to have happened with another boy, and anyway she started it.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-24 23:00|| 2018-12-24 23:00|| Front Page Top

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