A most offensive four-letter word (Ma'am is offensive?)

Winona Daily News ^ | 8/31/06 | Donna Strumski

[pissant]

I prefer using toots and chickee, but ma'am works too.

[thoughtomator]

Oddly enough, I find "sweetheart" isn't received very well, either. Maybe it's the dripping sarcasm?

[Vision]

Lunatic woman alert.

Sure seems like a lot of these lately.

[pissant]

Babe is poorly received too. What is the world coming too?

[pissant]

They are called liberals.

[traditional1]

"I prefer using toots and chickee, but ma'am works too."

Who'da thunk?

Another poster told me you use the ol' standby "Hey.............tuna........."

[VOA]

Being ma’am-ed is tantamount to having our self-esteem maimed.

I've been on the receiving end of this sort of 'tude.

And they wonder why American males go to the trouble to import brides...

[NRA1995]

Try calling one the "C" word and telling her that some flaky womens' studies professor said that it's a term of endearment....

[Vision]

You realize this whole article and "issue" is because women don't want to deal with the fact that they are as old as they are.

[Moose4]

I "ma'am" almost every woman I come in contact with. This stupid bint is too dense to figure out that it's a term of frigging respect down here in the South. I was brought up to say "yes sir" and "no sir," "yes ma'am" and "no ma'am," and even though I'm pushing forty now, I still do. Because if I didn't, my eighty-six-year-old mother will drive down here and kick my ass.

}:-)4

[Sax]

Well this was published in MN.

Ma'am is a Southern thing. Heck, I "Ma'am" the teenage checkout girl at the grocery store by habit.

[pissant]

Tuna? Is that Chicken of the Sea?

[opus86]

Our society is neck-deep in F-bombs and beeyotches and this woman is upset over ma'am?

[pissant]

Just try the old standby of opening the doors for the gals, and pinching their tush as they go thru.

[pissant]

LOL.

[MilspecRob]

I thought it was funny a h@ll, so did my model sister hitting 40 next month

[pissant]

Unless they are underage trying to buy beer. ;o)

[CollegeRepublican]

I call females that I don't know "Hon" all the time, but that is just the Baltimore in me.

[pissant]

apparently.

[Vision]

In general, American women are spoiled rotten. It will be fun to watch this develop over time. Yesterday there was a thread on the soon to be build "National Women's Hall of Fame".

hehehe