Re:Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita
by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:52AM
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Calling women "chick" has been iffy at best for at least 30 years. That's not new.
I've never heard of "Ms." being an issue, though, since it explicitly doesn't make assumptions about marital status like Miss and Mrs. do. I'd guess that someone didn't actually know what it meant.
Re:Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita
by ragequitta on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:53PM
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I've always considered chick the exact same as dude. It's just a synonym for girl/lady. If used improperly it can be offensive, but then I'd argue any sentence you can think of where it's used improperly you could replace "chick" with pretty much any synonym for girl/lady and it'd still be offensive.
Re:Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita
by circlefavshape on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:08AM
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What part of the above is offensive? I'm afraid to talk to young people or Americans these days lest someone get mad at me. Were we the same with our parents I wonder?
Re:Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita
by ragequitta on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:58AM
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Apparently with 'chick' it dehumanizes women, and with ms/miss it's something to do with the fact that you're implying they're young and/or a mistress? I honestly have no idea where people come up with this stuff. It's absurd.
Apparently we're not allowed to say 'that one chick from the alien films' or 'miss/ms' enternamehere without deeply offending some of the population to the point of being yelled at. There are many other examples of this I'm sure, but I don't get out much.
Isn't it also ironic that there's a group of people on a site called hackernews saying not to read the news? This is my only source, and it depresses me to no end. But how else do you keep up in a very quickly evolving world like ours?