# "Ain't no female fix my man a plate.  Mmmm, mmmmm..."

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**Created:** [July 25, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-no-female-fix-my-man-a-plate-mmmm-mmmmm/837629 "2019-07-25T19:42:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stuntman\_Mike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stuntman_mike/32/334_2.png) [@Stuntman\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuntman_Mike)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-no-female-fix-my-man-a-plate-mmmm-mmmmm/837629/15 "2019-07-25T22:58:40Z")

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> [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](#):
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> Not really buying that the OP works with either “professionals” or “black women,” (my bet is that he’s never met either minorities nor useful work), but would suggest for an enlightened being with the same question that the answer is to respond, to the best of his ability, when (and mostly if) he is spoken to, in the way the last decent person he ever met taught him to speak respectfully to others in his own limited way.
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> It is a stupid and racist idea that if two people speak in one way to one another, when they have never spoken that way to you, and they understand you and respond in kind when you speak your _own_ stunted, bigoted, brand of language, that you should try to emulate theirs. They have already demonstrated their intellectual superiority and you should just let them come down to your level, rather than cause offense by trying to grunt in theirs without formal lessons.

Busted. I did stretch the truth. Only one of them gals is smart… the other is a dolt. Nice enough, though.

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