Reclaiming the C word

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | July 29 2003 | George Morgan

[Rebelbase]

The article sounds like BS pandering to a feminist crowd....I doubt its truthfulness.

The aussies I've known call women "birds", not chicks.

[Oztrich Boy]

In defence of the wuss, Australians tend to be a bit more casual about the use of this phrasing than Yanks.

The Australian Macquarie Dictionary has about a page detailing various appropriate usages of the f-word.

[Paul Atreides]

Setting aside his daughter's usage of the f-word, any guy who won't even use the word chick, when his ex-wife and daughter use it all the time, is a walking vagina.

[AnAmericanMother]

The aussies I've known call women "birds", not chicks.

Or "sheilas", though that may be a bit antiquated by now. My Dinkum Aussie Dictionary doesn't say a thing about chicks. I think he's "bunging it on." A "bloody mug lair," in fact.

[technochick99]

I see no problem with 'chick'.

[Roscoe Karns]

George Morgan

[Oztrich Boy]

The Australian Oxford notes the use of "chick" in this sense.

probably entered the Oz-Voc through the Wog-Australian "chicky-babe".

[LibertarianLiz]

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

Yeah, I was wondering that myself. If my 15 year old, EVER spoke to me in that fashion it would be the LAST time she ever spoke to me in that fashion. I would never tolerate it, and my kids know it.

As to the first part of your question, they seem to be "sharing" the parenting duties and are full fledged liberal nuts --- I really wouldn't expect anything else from a child of these two parents.

[fish hawk]

This guy is really way off base if he thinks the "C" word is chick!!! We know what it really is....right!!!

[Billthedrill]

Personally I would never use the term "chick." Babes hate it.

[gitmo]

That poor little girl needs a father.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Ten years ago, if anyone (particularly a man) dared call an adult woman a "girl" that individual got roasted by the local feminist speech code enforcer (and there seemed to be one in every group). Now, young women all call themselves "girls", and so do the young men in their circles, without the slightest word of feminist protest. One event seems to have been the catalyst for this change, so...

...thanks, Bill Clinton, for destroying one of the ugliest tentacles of radical feminism far more effectively than we ever could have.

[Mark Turbo]

[wog] 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.

$cientologists refer to people outside of the cult as "wogs" too.

[oyez]

I noticed a local Dillard's Missess "back to school sale" ad in the Sunday paper. They should have called "back to brothel sale." Maybe this guy "chick" daughter could have been one of the models. It looks like this upcomming generation is telling its feminist mothers and grandmother to take a flying "f-off".

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, thank goodness I have a sensible girl!

I'm fortunate (she was a sweet-tempered, biddable child even as a tiny infant) but she is modest in her language, dress, and behavior. She has a picture of St. Maria Goretti up over her bed. She dresses in decent jeans and nice blouse mostly, although she has a couple of party dresses (and worries about the bustline), and she is still a bit of a tomboy at 15.

What's funny is that she seems to get along best with the nice, quiet boys who are scholarly, polite, and kind to the "old folks" (that's us). Which suits me to a T.

Doesn't stop her dad from dropping gentle hints about his Army experience, martial arts practice, and his firearms collection, though . . . . :-D

[AnAmericanMother]

Australian OED?!?!?! Now THAT's "bunging on side." ;-)

Thanks for the tip.

[Oztrich Boy]

Actually The Australian Oxford Paperback Dictionary based on The Oxford Paperback Dictionary

But there is an Australian Oxford too.

More than one actually

[breakem]

you got it!

[AnAmericanMother]

The Australian (Local) Colour Dictionary looks like it would be the most fun.

Australian slang is a delightful mine to fossick around in.

[PaulJ]

Appropriate? The headings in the Australian Macquarie Dictionary still label the various forms of the "F-Word" as either "often offensive" or "offensive". Granted there are times that offensive words are appropriate, saying it,as a child, to one's parents is not one of those times.