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Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout
I am in a profession where women are generally called "Miss" irrespective of marital status. I wouldn't want to be a Mzzzzz though. Dunno. It just doesn't really mean anything to me.
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Calling someone "Miss" in that way - akin to "Sir" - seems fine to me. As you say, marital status is irrelevant in that context. And the only time I hear "Mrs" used as a vocal term of address without surname, it tends to be preceded by the word "Ooer"
Just to be clear though, I'm not personally kicking up a fuss about the use of Miss or Mrs.
Rather, I'm kicking up a fuss about the sort of people prone to kicking up a fuss about Ms.
And using it to revel in their status as poor victims of the Great Conspiracy of the PC Brigade
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I guess I'm just tired of that inherent inwardness, that ungenerous, inconsiderate, "Why should I?" attitude that prevails amongst the it's-PC-gone-mad crowd, of which Tory MPs and the Daily Mail so perfectly encapsulate.
Standing up for freedom of speech and recoiling at the ease with which people can get offended is one thing (well, ok, two things) and that's fair enough, and I'd happily defend those positions. But the kneejerk hostility to any attempt to consider the hidden (and less hidden) implications behind language... the instant dismissal that it's just words, that it's people "telling us what to do" - to me that just reeks of meanness and opportunism and, as I say, taking it in completely the wrong spirit.