Being an old reference doesn’t make it right.
As the practice undoubtedly dates from a time when ships were almost exclusive the property of men (and wives and mistresses were often similarly seen as property), I suspect that it’ll slowly die out. As a guy, I probably can’t really understand how much (or little) it bothers women, but I guess I’m not surprised to learn that it does bother some.
Personally, I prefer the Irish standard of referring to ships as Sidhe.
ducks and runs
I’m pretty sure everyone knows what your intent is.
Don’t you ever get tired of being offended by everything? I do; I’ve given it up. Life is a lot simpler now. People who call boats she are not offending me. And humor, like the forklift guy, does not offend me either. Humor. Remember that?
Yeah, that’s not cute.
I don’t believe he have any idea what my motives are. You have an asked me. But I will pretend you did.
My motives were precisely what the OP implied. I had an amusing conversation with two friends who strongly disagreed about an issue. I relayed the substance of the conversation (making fun of myself in the process) and posed the question they were arguing about. I didn’t relay my position in the argument because I wasn’t really part of that part of the conversation. When pushed to it by you, I did say what I thought. If you believe you have some paranormal ability to read my thoughts, please demonstrate it by identifying my favorite Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Probably Phantom.
I was thinking about sea-vessels rather than cars, but you have reminded me of a car I once owned which my GF and I began calling Jesus because it mysteriously acquired a wound in its side.
Who says I was trying to be cute? I will not rest until every Smurf in the world has died violently. ESPECIALLY Brainy. In fact, if it is at all possible, I will kill HIM at least four times.
Well, you’re a grown man who writes like a 12 year old boy, so I suppose it makes sense that your protagonists are grown women who talk like 12 year old girls.
None of that happened.
You have issues with women that are becoming more apparent with every thread and every post that you make.
Now it is about naming boats with female names, really? That bothers you and your non-existent friends?
Popular culture is evolving, and although this board is way behind, it is evolving too. Your misogyny will be the end of you. Take a break.
I don’t see how my repeated, and I do admit bigoted, threats against the Smurfs in general and brainy Smurf in particular exposes any misogyny. I would ask you to explain, but both handy and hefty have escaped from their cages and I must recapture them before the whole plan falls to pieces. I really need that gold.
So I ran your post through the semantic analyzer and it seems that you are trying to annoy me. Here is the flaw in your plan.
The Dope is not real.
My family is real. My job is real. My friends are real. My blindness is real. the dope is a collection of electrons where i go to when I am bored and don’t have the kids because I like to play. Admittedly, I have been using it tonight to work on my cutting and pasting skills, which is fairly difficult using voiceover on the iPhone but I think I have mastered it. Not a small thing to me, so I am happy the dope has helped in that way.
But I’m not going to stress about anything here.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go to bed, By which I mean I need to rampage through the Smurf Village so I can listen to all those disgusting little blue buggers scream in terror. I am a very bad man.
Are you sure it’s not in part the other way 'round? Since it’s a she anyway, “she” gets a feminine name. Spanish floating vehicles (and yes, Delicious, in Spanish everything has a grammatical gender - which transfers over to personalizations of objects) usually get feminine or neutral names if small but male or neuter if large.
Yes, you keep mentioning it even when it hasn’t been challenged.
The attention you get from your threads is certainly real, and you seem to crave it because you only participate in your own threads 99% of the time. You obviously get something out of your participation here.
You can’t pretend the last month or so on the boards didn’t happen. Making cutesy post comparing yourself to Gargamel isn’t going to win you your reputation back.
I am definitely NOT sure:D. That is a good point.
I didn’t know everything was gendered in Spanish.
I’ve heard people refer to a bunch of other things as “she” although the practice probably comes from ships. But I wouldn’t think “How’s she coming along?” is strangely out of place for anything from cars to computers.
Yeah, we get it, kayT, you disagree with other women about sexism on the boards. But you sure give me the impression you actually are bothered/offended, just in the other direction.
It’s also pretty telling that your repeated response to criticism is to bring up your family and your disability: I’m not sure what the latter has to do with your conduct, but your immediate recourse when slighted to hiding behind the skirts of women, imagined or otherwise, is pretty contemptible given your very real disdain towards the women of this board.