Okay, call me sexist, rascist, homophobe, xenophobe........

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.................or whatever!

But can you explain to me why "stewardess" is a bad word? I must be too old to get it!

I am now even seeing that "Flight attendant" is bad.
 
kgruber said:
.................or whatever!

But can you explain to me why "stewardess" is a bad word? I must be too old to get it!

I am now even seeing that "Flight attendant" is bad.
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Guessing, based on your avatar, because you are not "of the aggrieved class" of persons who are coming into power via control of language. Everything you say is offensive colonialism. If you say it to a POC it is racist, if you say it to a different gender identity it is sexist or recipient-phobic, and if you say it to a rock or tree then you're just a sh*tlord :D

over/under on when the lock gets placed on this puppy? :D I'm in for "before post 20"
 
wait, there's a new way to do BC / AD?
 
schmookeeg said:
Guessing, based on your avatar, because you are not "of the aggrieved class" of persons who are coming into power via control of language. Everything you say is offensive colonialism. If you say it to a POC it is racist, if you say it to a different gender identity it is sexist or recipient-phobic, and if you say it to a rock or tree then you're just a sh*tlord :D

over/under on when the lock gets placed on this puppy? :D I'm in for "before post 20"
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Wouldn't that be like insider trading?
 
luvflyin said:
Wouldn't that be like insider trading?
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:D A bit I suppose. I've never locked a thread, but the process goes:

Report > Debate amongst MC > Decision to lock or not

unless someone drops a seriously rotten attack/remark, then it goes

Lock > Hand-wringing amongst MC if the right move was made > Decision whether to unlock or not

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So I suppose my bet is more "is someone gonna drop a real ugly/offensive remark on this topic before someone reports us for being generally offensive/controversial/hurt feelings?"

I feel OP's pain on this subject. I'm used to language changing, but it's happening faster than I can recalibrate and keep up. At some point I'm going to throw up hands and just call everyone something rude out of Anthony Jeselnik's insult book. :D
 
Rushie said:
I still can’t get used to not using BC and AD. The new way of doing it makes no sense to me. And I still think Pluto is a planet.
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plus one on being confused about "not using BC and AD"

and, yeah, I don't know why it was so important to change the designation of Pluto.
 
kgruber said:
I am now even seeing that "Flight attendant" is bad.
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Had to look that up. Found this:

While it may have been politically correct to call a flight attendant an air hostess or stewardess sixty years ago, doing so today is frowned upon. The proper term preferred by all flight crew is flight attendant or even better, cabin crew. Over the past six decades, men and women boldly fought to change what constitutes an acceptable attribute of an ideal cabin crew member. What came along with these accomplishments was the reintroduction of male flight attendants, which would forever usher out old-fashioned terms like air hostess and stewardess.

Source
 
Bob Noel said:
plus one on being confused about "not using BC and AD"

and, yeah, I don't know why it was so important to change the designation of Pluto.
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Pluto isn't a boy dog anymore???? When did that happen?
 
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Van Johnston said:
Had to look that up. Found this:

While it may have been politically correct to call a flight attendant an air hostess or stewardess sixty years ago, doing so today is frowned upon. The proper term preferred by all flight crew is flight attendant or even better, cabin crew. Over the past six decades, men and women boldly fought to change what constitutes an acceptable attribute of an ideal cabin crew member. What came along with these accomplishments was the reintroduction of male flight attendants, which would forever usher out old-fashioned terms like air hostess and stewardess.

Source
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Always wondered why it didn’t become Steward and Stewardess with “the reintroduction of male flight attendants”.

Cheers
 
Rushie said:
I still can’t get used to not using BC and AD. The new way of doing it makes no sense to me. And I still think Pluto is a planet.
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Just mix it up a little and it's all ABCD!
 
I was informed the other day that the term "master bedroom" is a racist term.
 
Van Johnston said:
...What came along with these accomplishments was the reintroduction of male flight attendants...
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I must have missed it, was there a big rally to "get more men to be flight attendants"........."we need more men in the flight attendant industry"........."flight attendants are such a female dominated industry"......."there's so many barriers for men to get into the flight attendant industry"??? interesting, I don't recall hearing any of that, isn't that strange. so it sounds like some dudes wanted to be flight attendants, so they became flight attendants. so weird how that works.....if you want to do something, you do it, and it gets done. no rally cry needed. no revolution needed. no support movements needed.......no whining and crying about "but someone was mean to me so it's sooooooooooo difficult to live my dream of becoming a flight attendant".........waaaahhhhhhhh
 
midwestpa24 said:
This is why the new generation has to keep inventing new words, they keep getting offended by the old ones and ban them!
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They're offended by the term "new generation", which is ageist and denigrates them for being "too" young.

I'm offended by the term "old", which is ageist and completely accurate.

FORANE said:
I was informed the other day that the term "master bedroom" is a racist term.
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Mistress bedroom?
 
bflynn said:
They're offended by the term "new generation", which is ageist and denigrates them for being "too" young.
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How about “****ing idiots”? No age connotations, and idiocy seems to be in vogue right now.

I'm offended by the term "old", which is ageist and completely accurate.
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I prefer “Lifetime survivor”. ;)
 
My kids school system decided “library” was inappropriate and renamed them all “media centers”. A couple years later it was changed to “learning hubs”. Who knows what they’re called now.
 
Meh. Whatever. These changes aren't enough to bother me.
 
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