Reclaiming the C word

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | July 29 2003 | George Morgan

[dead]

He doesn’t like the word “chick” because he is one.

[lelio]

"It does not. It's just a word we use. It just means 'girl'. Why are you so bloody sanctimonious?"

Pretty good for a 14 year old girl!

[Mr. K]

what kind of a father raises a girl who says "f--- off" to him?

girly-man

[tsmith130]

"Oh f--- off, Dad. Stop lecturing me." Use of the word 'chick' by his 14 year old daughter is the least his problems!

[squidly]

That's what I was thinking. He doesn't like "chick", but apparently "f--- off dad" is okay. Looks like he's already lost the word usage battle, among other things.

[dark_lord]

What the shit is a "wog"?

It means "Westernized Oriental Gentleman". It was an insult from the Brits towards the Indians who attended the upper class Universities in England, and became a way for class concious Brits to slur upstanding people of other ethnic groups, as in -- they may be gentleman but they are still wogs. Get it?

[Cyber Liberty]

Yeah, except for the part about telling daddy to Eff Off. As a "daddy" myself, it kinda pi$$es me off.

[KellyAdmirer]

So the guy allows his 14-year-old daughter to curse at him, allows her to dress so provocatively that she gets singled out at ballgames, and he posts feminist slogans on his bulletin board.

Nah, he's not whipped.

[PaulJ]

"Oh f--- off, Dad..."

Awww,the children of liberals say the cutest things, don't they?

[eyespysomething]

It's tough being a sensitive New-Age dad in the noughties.

Then don't be!!! Tell your daughter not to dress like that, and what was the "F#$% off" his daughter told him? Wha-wha-what? He's going to have more problems than not with her attitude like that already.

I'd still be picking myself off the floor if I spoke like that to my dad, and I was his only daughter!

[jjm2111]

"Oh f--- off, Dad. Stop lecturing me."

Great daughter you're raising there, tough guy.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"Oh f--- off, Dad. Stop lecturing me."

Had to check to see of this was written by Ozzie Osborne.

[AnAmericanMother]

Amen.

Like so many new-age types, this fool is worrying about the flowers on his dining-room table while the house is on fire.

His young daughter is dressing like a slut and using language that 20 year old BOYS used to make sure they didn't use in front of their parents, and HE'S worried about her using "sexist" language?

He's not only whipped, he's so out of touch he's comatose.

[camle]

typical PC crapola. it is perfectly fine to tell dad to f-off, but the use of a non-PC term merits a reprimand.

get a grip pops, her use of the word "chick" is the least of you (and her) problems.

my child is highly troubled, and her mother left her a foul mouthed tramp. In three months, she hasn't used cuss words (more than once), is off meds and doing well in summer school. I never raise my voice, and I never hit her. AND I dont' sweat the small stuff.

[Gabz]

I'd still be picking myself off the floor if I spoke like that to my dad, and I was his only daughter!

You and me both - and it would happen to this day and I'm in my 40s!!!

A month or so ago my husband heard our 5 year old call me stupid - I can honestly say I have never seen that man move so fast...............She has not said it since.

[The Brush]

"Oh f--- off, Dad. Stop lecturing me."

My how times have changed. If I'd have said that I'd be the victim of child abuse by current standards. My parents were so intolerable, conservative and controlling....
I hate to think of what will happen to this guy if his daughter is ever "forced" to care for him when he grows old.

[xm177e2]

Rape: At the End of Every Wolf Whistle

Drunk Driving: At the Bottom of Every Beer
Addiction: In the Stub of Every Joint
Gun Violence: At the Bottom of Every Magazine
Zombies: Underneath Every Cemetary
Metrosexuals: At the End of Every SMH Byline

[Jay D. Dyson]

I don't know which is more nauseating; this guy's Milquetoast personality or the fact that his being a Milquetoast has essentially doomed his daughter to an existence of trying to find a REAL man by wearing overtly sexualized clothing at the young age of 14.

This chump is worried about his daughter using the word "chick"? I predict that in two years, that'll be the least of his worries when his "chick"-uttering daughter becomes a statistic in the Teen Pregnancy column.

-Jay

[evilC]

I thought it was a slur (it never had friendly connotations) used against black people, as in gollywog (yes really).