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[William Flynn Wallace]

'Your woman' not OK?  How about 'your mate'?  'Your baby'?  'Your squeeze'
- an oldie there.  'Your old woman' definitely out.

Women are conflicted the way most men aren't about their body parts.
Breasts can be 'puppies'.  Ravel wrote a piece called Les Mammelles de Ste.
Teresias.  Vaginas can be 'down there'.  .  An oldtimer psych prof when I
started would tell girls to shut 'The Gates of Hell'.  Hundreds of slang
terms online.  Reason?   Anxiety.  We somehow cannot stand medical terms
even those are usually without anxiety.  bill w

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 4:37 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Oct 13, 2021, at 2:15 PM, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > On 13/10/2021 00:03, billw wrote:
> >> I also tell guys never, ever call your woman's chest 'tits' much less
> 'titties'.
> >
> > Maybe a cultural thing here, but I need to qualify this: "unless they
> do".
> >
> > Perhaps the standard Anglo-saxon terms are less acceptable in America
> than they are in their birthplace.
>
> Breast is also of Old English origin. Anyhow, I’m not sure how standard it
> was a thousand years ago or why that should guide current usage. You
> probably wouldn’t I trust use ‘girl’ to mean a child of any gender simply
> because that’s how the word was used even after the Norman conquest.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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