[Elfsea] A T-Shirt for all of our Bards
ThoraOdottir at aol.com
ThoraOdottir at aol.com
Thu Jul 22 11:13:48 PDT 2004
Janie and Alaric are correct on their points. All ladies deserve better than
to be referred to as a "ho". Someone I spoke to last night couldn't conceive
how I could find the shirt amusing. I guess I can because to me the term
used is not a societal standard or I should say not a polite societal standard.
I saw the shirt as a parody or satire of people who would use it as a general
term for the female gender. Perhaps it is my own biases showing but I find it
hard to imagine someone who reads Shakespeare on a regular basis as someone
who would also use the term in the context proposed--as a generality. I guess it
doesn't work me up in the same way because I know that people who would
seriously use that word in a manner that would included any woman without regard to
her -- to avoid another derogatory term--- "standards of practice" are not
people I would wish to associate with anyway. Of course I am also a much more
roughspoken woman that most--much to my contemporaries chagrin at times I am
sure--which tends for me to consider context, manner and object of conversation
before judging a word outright. At least when I am sober.
Then again perhaps I am overthinking this whole thing and should just go do
something useful.
Later ya'll :)
Thora
In a message dated 7/21/2004 3:25:04 PM Central Daylight Time,
glen.d.wilkerson at lmco.com writes:
> I know dear, I was just gritching about the unfortunate trend of such base
> and disrespectul language becoming a societal "common standard." All ladies
> deserve better.
>
> Alaric
>
> Ok,
>
> After seeing this a number of times I have to comment. Can't help
> myself.
>
> Even if the word hos is now considered a common word, it is still rude
> and
> degrading. Whenever I see it or hear someone use it the first thing that
>
> comes to mind is what kind of low life is this???
>
> Just an old farts out burst.
>
> Janie DFT
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