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Originally Posted by cacophony
it speaks volumes about a man when he speaks in such a diminishing way to a woman. i've got a serious problem with this.
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Sorry I completely disagree. What a bunch of stuff over nothing! I have an unfortunate habit of calling people "love", "darling" or "sweetie", whether they are male or female, gay, hetero or transexual in casual chat (Eddy from AbFab, eat yer heart out
). It is nothing to do with diminishing them in any way, but simply a linguistic tick.
Sometimes it can slip out when, if I had thought about it better, I would have realised that it was a tad over-familiar or innappropriate. But when that does happen it is usually when I am feeling in a "comfortable" position with someone.
And as for the harridans on the Blog for Choice, they need to stop wearing their sexism quite so blatantly on their sleeves. (Especially the moron who referred to Obama as "O Hussein B", who will take out a harassment suit against NARAL if a fundraiser ever calls her again. WTF? ) I am so bored with the "a woman need a man like a fish needs a bicycle" militant tendency now. The only woman Prime Minister we had in this country did absolutely NOTHING to advance the cause for ordinary working women. The predominant changes in sexual equality and freedom of choice happened under male PM's and predominantly male cabinets.
Things have moved on since the 70s, sisters. No need to keep rattling the bars on your cages of patriarchal opression - the doors were blown wide open years ago, if you opened your eyes wide enough to take a look...