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

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

[JamesP81]

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

Interesting point: you know radical lib women are difficult when some men determine that overcoming language and cultural barriers is easier.

There are many fish in the sea. Few are worth catching.

[JamesP81]

This stupid bint is too dense to figure out that it's a term of frigging respect down here in the South.

Yeah, she wouldn't do so well around my neck of the woods. Everybody sirs and ma'ams around here.

[geezerwheezer]

I live in Savannah and we was learnt that any female, be she 1 day old or 120 years old is referred to as "ma'am" only out of respect for their femininity and genteelness. Seems like today some women want to be hard as nails, have a take-no-prisoner attitude, and are hostile to my way of life and upbringin'. I held the door open for a lady in New York City one cold morning, and when she was 10 feet away she told me in a brittle voice"I can open my own door!" I let it go just as she entered it, and it hit her square in the nose and knocked her on her a**. I looked at her and had a great laugh and told her that was God's way of teaching her to try and be a lady. Needless to say, she was upset, but everyone around me thought it was great. It was like a scene in a 3 Stooges movie and I've never forgotten it.

[300magnum]

"We say grace and we say ma'am, and if you ain't into that we don't give a damn." -Hank Williams, Jr.

Hank Jr. BTTT

[NCC-1701]

"...Tuna? Is that Chicken of the Sea?..."

No. He's the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

GO COWBOYS!!!!!

[Tax-chick]

Chortle! Those deadly words, "Bless your heart, honey!"

I think "Ma'am," makes me an authority figure, which I don't mind a bit :-).

[eastforker]

O K, Here it goes, this realy gets em riled. You guessed it, twat wad!!

[martin_fierro]

Donna Strumski is a twentysomething, singleton gypsy who wandered to the Winona area about five years ago. Donna hangs her rucksack in Lewiston. Feel free to contact her at sacrecouer@u2.com.

[LiteKeeper]

Sticks and stones
May break my bones
But names will never harm me

"THIN SKIN ALERT!"

[ut1992]

Moose, are you part of my family!!! I too am slowly sliding towards 40 and am from the South. You grew up with the same rules of civility that my brothers and I were brought up with.

We still call friends of our folks Mr. or Mrs. even though they've some been friends of the family for 30-40 years.

Heck my folks still call friends of my grandmother Mr. or Mrs., and our folks are in the late 60's/early 70's.

[exile]

Whatever you do. Never refer to a female co-worker as "Old Timer". They hate that.

[Richard Kimball]

I think this is supposed to be a humor column, kind of a "by the girls, for the girls" thing. I put it in the "Steel Magnolias" category. I don't know why people have so much trouble accepting the fact that they're getting older.

[livius]

I suggest "you old bag." This ditz is clearly having a problem with being a woman of a certain age, and she needs a reality check.

It happens to all of us, if we are lucky enough to live that long, and she should just get over it. What does she want with a 16 year old supermarket bag boy, anyway?

[Welsh Rabbit]

I was on a college campus last week and a female freshman called me "sir" (I just turned 30). It didn't really bother me, but I suddenly realized I'm not so young anymore.

[sweetliberty]

How ridiculous! Why are so many women ashamed or offended by their femininity?

[Guenevere]

Girls raised in the South know it's a reverent salutation to be addressed as ...ma'am....at any age.

Guess we know where she's not from.