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Aug 2Liked by Willa Goodfellow

These are definitely weird times we are living in. The hysteria (knowing the history of the word and how it was used against women, I use it against-) of conservatives getting upset by a French Olympic opening ceremony and accusing a female boxer of not being female enough for their liking, and etc and etc (I’m one of those childless cat ladies, after all) it is all just weird!

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Other words I'd like to hear more often - silly and grumpy, and "You should smile more"

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MacBeth refers to the three witches thusly: Saw you the weird sisters?

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Ah yes. I think up until this century it was used mostly to mean "other-worldly." I wonder when/how that shifted?

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