...Harris was great, and never seemed "hysterical" in the least... I'm not sure the word "hysterical" should be used to describe any of the hearing... but, if it had to be applied somewhere - Sessions appeared "hysterical" at times.

"ambitious".

Kamala Harris is dogged, determined and is doing her job as she should. Women like her scare some men so they use words like hysterical and ambitious as derogatory words to describe them.

I would add that in addition to being called "ambitious," I've seen the term "aggressive" used, among others.

word "hystera"=womb) to describe the assumed mental imbalance of women who did not quietly submit to the narrow, tightly constrained range of feeling and behavior considered appropriate for women.

At first his "dogged" just made me think "What? More like very tough and competent?"

But come to think of it, our AG came off more like a wimpy little spaniel being eyed by a leashed Rottweiler. I'd almost be afraid to leave him alone in a room with her.

Kamala's my newest hero out of this also.

Jeffrey Toobin of CNN, when the conversation about the Comey firing came too close to the issue they never touch, the FBI director's working alongside, if not with, the Russians, and of course people with CNN like him, to throw the 2016 election to the Republicans, tossed it off as Comey "not being nice to Hillary."

ORIGIN
mid 17th cent. (as an adjective): via Latin from Greek husterikos ‘of the womb,’ from hustera ‘womb’ (hysteria being thought to be specific to women and associated with the womb), related to uterus.

It's a bogus concept and should be sent to the same place as the n word, the c word and the b word.

forced into "well-meaning" and dangerous hysterectomies, in the 19th Century.

But, to the best of my knowledge, no men were castrated for being "dogged" or even raving idiots.

-Puzzler

and has been used up through the 20th century by medical professionals to describe the behavior of women. Men, by definition of hysteria, can never be hysterical.

Wikipedia:

While the word "hysteria" originates from the Greek word for uterus, hystera, the word itself is not an ancient one, and the term "hysterical suffocation" - meaning a feeling of heat and inability to breathe - was instead used in ancient Greek medicine. This suggests an entirely physical cause for the symptoms but, by linking them to the uterus, suggests that the disorder can only be found in women.[1] Historically, hysteria was thought to manifest itself in women with a variety of symptoms, including: anxiety, shortness of breath, fainting, insomnia, irritability, nervousness, as well as sexually forward behaviour.[2] These symptoms mimic symptoms of other more definable diseases and create a case for arguing against the validity of hysteria as an actual disease, and it is often implied that it is an umbrella term, used to describe an indefinable illness.[1] Through to the 20th century, however, the label hysteria was applied to a mental, rather than uterine or physical, affliction. Hysteria is no longer thought of as a real ailment.

Me again: "Hysteria" was an official diagnosis underlying much misogyny throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. It was used to limit women's options in every field of endeavor--it's hard to overstate how pernicious this word was, and is. Today it's thrown in our faces by sexist men who are threatened by assertive or aggressive women, or by women who are saying things some men don't think we should be allowed to say. "Hysteria" is right up there with "shrill" in my book of words men are not allowed to use about women.

He said so a week or two ago.

If anyone was "hysterical," it was Sessions.

Hysterical means "marked by uncontrollable, extreme emotion."

Hysterical comes from the medical Latin word hystericus, which described a female neurotic condition, thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the uterus.

movement was constrained outside the home in Athens, and they had no say in public/political life. The word "hysterical" is precisely what a reactionary man would use to insult a "little woman" who doesn't "know her place."

I hope one day she's in a position cram it up their urethra

yep they think a woman should get back in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut

the male Democrats asking questions and they weren't at all.

I watched that part of the exchange. I'd say she came across strong & assertive, as were the Dem males. I'd say the Republican male senators were flat out wimpy and asked mostly softball questions treating Sessions like he was some frail petunia blossom... which, btw, he was acting like (although after reading a comment on Twitter yesterday I can't shake the image of him as the Keebler Elf with Foghorn Leghorn's voice.)

The thing is that this happened to Harris last week too and let's not forget the crap pulled on Sen. Warren. There was a huge uproar over both incidences but they pulled their crap again so I'd say the Republicans an senators have major issues with strong, powerful 'alpha' women who don't 'know their place'. Well, tough noogies.

When a woman is treated differently than her male counterparts who are doing the same damn thing, acting the same damn way that's, flashing neon sign, blatant, sexism that even a moron should be able to 'get' unless... they don't WANT to.

But an even better question might be why is such an incredibly fugly man allowed a seat at the table where a similarly unattractive woman (without that ugly beard, of course) would be denied a seat at that same table?

Uppity. Why don't these cretins just keep it 💯 and admit their racism and sexism? These code words aren't fooling anyone with half a brain.