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What's patronizing about the word "ladies"?
by 67726e 10y ago
What's patronizing about the word "ladies"?
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoSo I'm curious as well but I know many female friends who prefer to be called a lady / ladies so I'm not sure you can necessarily win when you attempt to converse with someone and you have zero context about them. I think people need to be more forgiving with most labels when the conversation happens anonymously without context of that user's preference. Now if you referred to them as "bitches" that would be a problem but I feel like we can be forgiving for "ladies", even if a majority of women do not like it. Right? At least that's what I think.
- projektir 10y agoI don't particularly care for the term "lady", but I would never consider it patronizing or an insult. I agree that people need to be more forgiving, this is just not worth the effort to worry about it.
- 2muchcoffeeman 10y agoNothing. It is a term generally used out of respect or formality like gentleman or Lord. Though I guess there are usages where it is just a gendered pronoun. The only context I've seen where 'lady' might be offensive is when some men enter a room full of other men and addresses them like "hello ladies".