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This is completely false.
by spankalee 4y ago
This is completely false.
- mc32 4y agoI've known people there who I feel pretty confident told a reliable story because they saw that aspect as "correct" and something admirable. Hey "new guy, you met with your manager's manager, how did it go?" "She's great, but I don't know why the other broad was there" Jaws fall... College kid turns white... Sure, it's not correct business/proff'l language, I agree and may merit a talk, but fire? I guess up to you. Yeah, yeah respect, etc. Have you caught how managers talk shit about things that are sanctioned to be talked shit about?
- roflyear 4y agoWhat's the term you can call a man that has the same meaning as "broad?"
- mc32 4y agogeezer
- roflyear 4y agoI guess.
- woodruffw 4y ago"Broad" is a generally disrespectful term for a woman, while "geezer" generally implies something about age (or at least being old-fashioned, fuddy-duddy, whatever).
- mc32 4y agothat's one interpretation... I've known people who use them as terms of endearment. But that's beside the point, managers and so on can disrespect and curse and say whatever about things that are perceived as acceptable targets and ain't nobody "going down to HR" to rat them out.
- woodruffw 4y agoSure, that's the great thing about this language of ours. But an ironic use of them doesn't change their predominant meaning, nor how they're going to be interpreted by someone who isn't familiar with you.
- mc32 4y ago"Prominent meaning..." depends on speaker class. People can use those words to refer to people without intending to disrespect the subject (in general).
- woodruffw 4y agoDidn't dispute that either. The intent is more or less immaterial; human beings operate through common understandings. If you don't use common understandings, you're going to be misunderstood at the very best.
- mc32 4y agoYeah so you know send the hulking virile Atlas down to re-education ca… sensitivity training. Anyway, they [the tellers of the anecdote] seemed to think it was an acceptable reaction to fire young Atlas for his faux pass.
- jimmygrapes 4y agofirst tell us what "broad" means
- userbinator 4y agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/broad#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/broad#Etymology_2 I'm not surprised that you didn't know right away --- and I agree with "sometimes dated" in the definition there, since it's been a long time since I've heard that usage.
- undeIays 4y ago
- pstuart 4y agodude
- SamPatt 4y agoI hope that's not true. I use dude synonymously with guy. Dude might be annoying if you called an acquaintance that because of assumed friendship, but I don't think it's negative like "broad."
- mc32 4y agoOf course not. Dude is only disrespectful in the context of professionalism, like instead of calling someone Dr Smith, you call him dude. But like most people, I refuse, when possible to ack those assumed titles. Exceptions for when they are performing title duty. Disrespectful terms would be things like: putz, schmuck, douche(bag), neckbeard, and many others.