[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Arkcon:

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Originally posted by Kamog:
I didn't know that... I thought "lady" was polite. How do they wish to be called?

Women is a good starting point. If they're real picky, they want to be called womyn, pronounced the same in American English, just doesn't contain the word men inside.

A lady is something delicate who you open a door for, you know car doors, theatre doors, etc. Just not the doors to the work place, political doors, door to your social club, etc.

'Course when a group(gaggle?, herd? flock?) of womyn arrive, the little evil person inside me has to be bound, chained, gagged and sat upon to prevent him from makeing me say, "Aww, who let the skirts in here?"

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I would say that perhaps you experience may be a little narrow on this point. I know and have known women that were not at all as you have described here, but they were ladies in every sense of the word. Some were powerful and independent, others were proud. Some were just plain stubborn, but they were all ladies.