The MAGA majority wants to deliver Trump a government conscripted in an “effort to belittle and degrade women,” and GOP men would like women to stop being so “hysterical” about it, writes Dahlia Lithwick.
Both hysteria and hysterical are they themselves misogynistic terms, based on the “intrinsic weaknesses” women possess through their inherent physiology/uterus-having nature.
It’s a patriarchal pejorative reference that carries with it an assumption of dismissal/minimization.