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"I don't know who she was
But I'd stake my life that the expression was coined by some man she said no to
Or took her without consent 
What were they called before
bicycles we're invented? "
Daughter, mother, grandmother, niece, sister, aunt, wife .... Women... Human beings |
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"Who cares? It's another derogatory term that needs to die. Along with all the other derogatory terms used to describe women."
I absolutely agree. It does make one wonder about the mentality of men who use any derogatory terms about women.
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"or all derogatory terms in general, not just women?
Indeed, but we must retain the right to slag off politicians, accountants, teachers, estate agents and senior civil servants please!"
Why? Are they not flesh and blood people also? |
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"or all derogatory terms in general, not just women?
Indeed, but we must retain the right to slag off politicians, accountants, teachers, estate agents and senior civil servants please!
Why? Are they not flesh and blood people also?"
It’s debatable !!!
Ps add traffic wardens and parking attendants! |
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"or all derogatory terms in general, not just women?
Indeed, but we must retain the right to slag off politicians, accountants, teachers, estate agents and senior civil servants please!
Why? Are they not flesh and blood people also?
It’s debatable !!!
Ps add traffic wardens and parking attendants!"
Politicians (and civil servants) do seem to be in season at the moment, but I'm intrigued as to why accountants, estate agents, and particularly teachers make the lis  |
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"Who cares? It's another derogatory term that needs to die. Along with all the other derogatory terms used to describe women."
It's misogynistic, wherw they don't hold themselves to the same standards I think it's used from the 1940s onwards. Perhaps returning soldiers were expecting a country of eager virgins to await their return? |
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"I don't know who she was
But I'd stake my life that the expression was coined by some man she said no to
Or took her without consent
What were they called before
bicycles we're invented?
Daughter, mother, grandmother, niece, sister, aunt, wife .... Women... Human beings "
I hate to break it to you, but in some societies speaking a woman's name in public meant that she'd made a spectacle of herself and brought humiliation on the family.
If they were lucky, they were Of husband, bearer of sons. |
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