If we are going to dispose of all the informal terms for females we should also get rid of all the informal words for males to be fair.
Kids? Goats used to smoke and drink?
Thank you. Brad, you read my mind.Your description
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A "GATHERING" of friends. Talk hunting or other "gossip"!!
This obviously falls in the “other gossip” category…
Pard - you missed Pard.....
Ma’am seems fine.
In 1990, in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie, the fictional character Casey Jones referred to April O'Neill as "Broadzilla". For 20-some years, I kept that one collecting dust in my pocket till the critical moment in my marriage that it was called for. It will never be called for again.
I had a lady in her late 50’s going apesh*t over some stupid little thing in a parking lot. In the course of trying to extricate myself from the situation I called her ma’am. She freaked out, screaming at the top of her lungs that she was no ma’am and that I was a misogynist for using the term. I calmly pointed out that I use the term respectfully for women who I don’t have another name to use, but I wouldn’t be needing it any longer now that I had a proper address for her, “bitch”. That went over as well as you would expect.Ma’am seems fine.
Of course, that’s coming from a survivor of the “bitches and ho’s” era so
