I just feels like of old timey to me, but not nearly as bad as say, gal* Archived Message
Posted by Sounder on January 23, 2024, 15:18:51, in reply to "No. Just noticed it's disappeared or at least receded a bit from modern usage."
Previous Message And by modern, I mean in the past several years. Having spent so much time in the south, I have female friends (one in particular) who really preferred that word. But I know younger people who think of it as dated or frumpy. Previous Message I guess I feel like “lady” has connotations of expected “feminine” behavior…like when I was a kid if I did something that was crude or tomboyish I was told that wasn’t “ladylike.” The implication being that because I was a girl, I should behave in a more restrained, civilized, or elegant way. Whereas “woman” seems a generic way of referring to one who presents or identifies as female. I don’t find “lady” offensive, and I use it in a humorous way (like referring to moiself as a “middle-aged lady”), but I would never allow it to be used in a book I’m editing (which are textbooks or professional references) to refer generally to females.
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- Jackie I need your expertise as both an English expert and a female - ATL January 23, 2024, 7:43:10
- Not many Lady Lions, Lady Bulldogs or such left in the sports world. * - larue33 January 23, 2024, 15:12:16
- Did someone tell you not to use it? - Jackie January 23, 2024, 10:30:11
- I recently got into it with someone who was trying to defend the use of "gal"* - Sounder January 23, 2024, 15:16:07
- No. Just noticed it's disappeared or at least receded a bit from modern usage. - ATL January 23, 2024, 10:35:36
- I just feels like of old timey to me, but not nearly as bad as say, gal* - Sounder January 23, 2024, 15:18:51
- I had an editor who disliked it - AintHatin January 23, 2024, 15:14:45
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- That famous spaghetti scene in Woman and the Tramp.* - Tortillini January 23, 2024, 8:27:23
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- Luck be a woman tonight* - Phytynlini January 23, 2024, 8:28:02
- Woman Madonna* - bbonb January 23, 2024, 10:13:16
- Lay Woman Lay* - PapaDels January 23, 2024, 8:30:51
- Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Woman"* - illini222 January 23, 2024, 8:30:24
- She's a woman. Whoa, whoa, whoa, she's a woman. TALKIN' ABOUT that little woman* - Sammich January 23, 2024, 8:30:17
- Woman - ATL January 23, 2024, 8:33:01
- "Special Lady Friend"* - memyselfandillini January 23, 2024, 8:18:34
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