# Dames don't like to be called broads. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269 "2016-09-30T04:01:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/1 "2016-09-30T04:01:54Z")
Or chicks don’t like to be called broads. . . where’d that come from? I’ve heard it before but have been hearing it a lot lately because of a certain presidential candidate and his views on women. But did it start as a meme or is it a lyric, or book quote or movie character? Does anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/2 "2016-09-30T04:50:23Z")
I found the chicks/broads things [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqeatUvRu68) (can’t say if it’s the first time, or even what it’s from, because it’s late and I don’t feel like looking). But the other one, when I hear ‘dame’ in that sense, I’m thinking flapper/prohibition era. I’m sure it goes back further than that, but at least in movies, that’s the era where it seems to be most popular with broads and chicks coming (chronologically) next. ETA, OTOH, if that’s not the question you were asking, if you were asking about the joke, it’s a pretty common style of joke, to substitute one insult for another. Either on purpose, by accident or ‘by accident’. I doubt you’ll find the origin of that, I’d guess that in pop culture you’d find plenty of it in vaudeville, and it probably started even before that. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/3 "2016-09-30T04:52:37Z")
《Never mind》 ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/4 "2016-09-30T05:22:53Z")
‘cum dumpsters’, is that still ok? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/5 "2016-09-30T05:38:05Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > ‘cum dumpsters’, is that still ok? Don’t you have a “shift” key? … … … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/6 "2016-09-30T05:51:52Z")
That’s why the lady is a tramp. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/7 "2016-09-30T12:14:55Z")
From Weird Al’s 80s movie “UHF”, I remember a line “never call chicks broads”, or something like that. EDIT: it appears that was the link in post 2. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/8 "2016-09-30T12:43:59Z")
Dudley Moore and Julie Andrews had quite a conversation regarding broads, sluts, whores, women etc. in _10_, but it wasn’t a single quote. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/9 "2016-10-03T21:15:15Z")
You know, **biggirl** the thread title instantly made me think [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3acdQLTliA). ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/10 "2016-10-03T21:20:10Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > ‘cum dumpsters’, is that still ok? Apparently not - it’s political correctness gone mad. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/11 "2016-10-03T21:21:57Z")
I remember a discussion about the “fat broad” in the old B.C comic strip . … I think they ended up giving her a name due to complaints in the 90s … Tho I don’t think the advice column bits were as funny after they did ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/12 "2016-10-03T22:09:48Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > ‘cum dumpsters’, is that still ok? My Latin’s a little rusty… any lawyers on hand to translate? ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/13 "2016-10-04T00:07:05Z")
Ah, who cares what skirts think! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/14 "2016-10-04T00:24:21Z")
Isn’t dame derived from the German damen? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/15 "2016-10-04T01:03:52Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > I remember a discussion about the “fat broad” in the old B.C comic strip . … I think they ended up giving her a name due to complaints in the 90s … The only other woman in the strip was the Cute Chick. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/16 "2016-10-04T01:07:58Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > I remember a discussion about the “fat broad” in the old B.C comic strip . … I think they ended up giving her a name due to complaints in the 90s … As far as I know, they’re still “Fat Broad” and “Cute Chick.” God only knows what the twisted minds of Hart and his progeny would have decided on for names. “Fatassa” and “Bustina,” probably. ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/17 "2016-10-04T03:07:12Z")
_Not sure if this will link- having issues with it tonight._ This sounded familiar, so I searched it and this is where I’ve seen it before. It was on somebody’s facebook a while ago, I guess. ![You can](https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/61580280.jpg) I doubt Archie said it, but he would have, given the chance. I don’t mind broad or dame, or even chick, if you mean it in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/18 "2016-10-04T04:47:57Z")
The only ‘b’ word you should call a girl is beautiful. Bitches love to be called beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dames-dont-like-to-be-called-broads/767269/19 "2016-10-04T06:03:26Z")
I recall a similar line from the Three Stooges. Curly had said something inappropriate to a lady, and Moe dressed him down. “Never call a babe a dame!” Then he turns to the woman and says, “Right, Toots?”