# Women:  Would you find this offensive?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-would-you-find-this-offensive/370351>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 26, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-would-you-find-this-offensive/370351 "2006-08-26T20:03:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-would-you-find-this-offensive/370351/21 "2006-08-29T12:33:42Z")

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It’s a good rule in life to criticize the person’s behavior, not the whole person. There’s a world of difference between “You’ll really acting like a shrew” and “Boy, you are a shrew.”

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-would-you-find-this-offensive/370351/22 "2006-08-29T12:37:02Z")

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What, no more “Taming of the Shrew”?

I might find it offensive if it was directed to me, just on grounds of knowing that he had intent to offend. But not on “general femininity grounds”, no.

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**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-would-you-find-this-offensive/370351/23 "2006-08-29T13:30:20Z")

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> A shrew means both 1) a rodent

Shrews are insectivores, not rodents.

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