Okay, I understand what the basic underlying issue is.
I guess what puzzled me was that going into this thread the only context I had was "The Hysteries," and people were reacting as if they had called themselves, flat-out, "The Three Crazy Bitches," whereas the reference had gone completely over my own head.
Maybe I would have picked up on the link between the "hysteries" and the women-are-crazy stereotype if I'd seen the whole thing in context? I guess it also doesn't help that while I recognized Wanda, I didn't even notice that was Jean at first, and I still don't know who the woman in green is.