"What Happened To You?"

Toni Hargis
Write Like a Girl
Published in
6 min readOct 16, 2022

And other ways they call women "crazy"

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In the good old days, men could call women "crazy" with gay abandon. In fact, by questioning their sanity and having other men agree, they could have the women in their lives locked up for life. Sometimes they showed benevolence and incarcerated them for shorter periods to teach them a lesson or encourage them to 'know their place'.

Toni Hargis
Write Like a Girl

Co-author of “How to Stand up to Sexism; Words for when enough is enough”. Helping women find their voices. @ToniHargis