Re:I don't want to work for a big company
by michaelochurch on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:02PM
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I didn't know that it was a term of abuse. I won't use it, then.
I guess we need another emasculating/biting term for male managerial favorites. "Protege, in the Ancient Greek sense of the word" is a lot of words, but it's the best alternative I can come up with.
Re:I don't want to work for a big company
by JonnieCache on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:08PM
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Perhaps a re-contextualisation of the phrase "Teacher's Pet" could be sufficiently infantilising?
Re:I don't want to work for a big company
by michaelochurch on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:19PM
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Desk ornament.
I'm not disputing that it is used that way in certain circles, but it isn't common. Also, ladyboy is often used as a term of hatred and abuse against transsexual people, so if you keep using it like that eventually you're going to be in a situation where you come across like some old guy casually talking about "niggers in the woodpile" and that would be bad. (I'm not saying it's equivalent, just that it could land you in equivalently hot water. You know what I mean.)