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I had the same thought as OP. Not outraged or anything, I just find it interesting. It reveals the bubble that I’m in more than anything, that the language sto
by jjj123 4y ago
I had the same thought as OP. Not outraged or anything, I just find it interesting.
It reveals the bubble that I’m in more than anything, that the language stood out in the first place. I’m a man, and my partner is a man, basically no dinner I’ve been to in adult life has been boy-girl-boy-girl. If I was a mathematician this would never in a million years be the example I’d come up with.
- gweinberg 4y agoWell, how could they have been?
- sokoloff 4y agoIf they dined with a lesbian couple (or simply two female friends), they could sit alternating M/F with no one sitting next to their partner.
- bawolff 4y agoI was wondering if the implication was it was some sort of [straight] swinger party. With menage being the first part of menage a trois
- whygender 4y agoProbably the word menage meant something sexual? I'm still confused why he/they/she would be upset by OP's comment
- ghayes 4y agoménage (Fr.) 1. (=nettoyage) housework faire le ménage - to do the housework une femme de ménage - a cleaning woman faire des ménages - to work as a cleaner (in people's homes) 2. (=couple) couple (=personnes mariées) married couple se mettre en ménage avec - to set up house with monter son ménage - to set up house faire bon ménage avec - to get on well with heureux en ménage - happily married 3. (Administration) (=famille) household [0] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-english/m%C3%A9nage https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-english/...
- bawolff 4y agoWords can have connotations beyond their dictionary definitions.
- menage 4y agoThis association with the French word that happens to be my surname is something that I've encountered more since moving from the UK to the US. Possibly due to the proximity to France resulting in a lot more UK people learning French in school than those who grow up in the US?
- nullc 4y agoYou can state this abstractly but it wouldn't have a clear purpose. This kind of seating where you alternate male and female but don't put couples next to each other is something that people have done and would like to do. > I’m a man, and my partner is a man, basically no dinner I’ve been to in adult life has been boy-girl-boy-girl Sure, if you're gay then don't be surprised to have not been at dinners where people do things that would make less sense with a gay couple. :D
- 082349872349872 4y ago> but don't put couples next to each other My grandfather was apparently a poor dancer, but that was never one of my grandmother's problems, because in those days, one never danced with one's spouse.