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Help[Opinions] Hysteria
in reply to a message by autumn23
A big, big no from me.
It's basically hysteria with a 'i'. I mean, you could say 'Oh, its roots are in the word 'history'', but that doesn't change what it looks like on paper.
Plus, even ignoring the modern day uses of 'hysteria' and 'hysterical', you have the deeply misogynistic and very upsetting association of 'female hysteria'. And that plunges the name well out of the faint fringes of 'well, if it's your GP' territory and over the cliff of 'nooooooooooo'. Well, that analogy doesn't work... oops.
Anyway, I really dislike Historia. Because A) It's kinda ugly. I like ugly, but this doesn't have any charm for me. B) The whole hysteria thing. You can't overlook that. Seriously.
It's basically hysteria with a 'i'. I mean, you could say 'Oh, its roots are in the word 'history'', but that doesn't change what it looks like on paper.
Plus, even ignoring the modern day uses of 'hysteria' and 'hysterical', you have the deeply misogynistic and very upsetting association of 'female hysteria'. And that plunges the name well out of the faint fringes of 'well, if it's your GP' territory and over the cliff of 'nooooooooooo'. Well, that analogy doesn't work... oops.
Anyway, I really dislike Historia. Because A) It's kinda ugly. I like ugly, but this doesn't have any charm for me. B) The whole hysteria thing. You can't overlook that. Seriously.
This message was edited 5/11/2013, 9:08 AM
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