<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">'Your woman' not OK? How about 'your mate'? 'Your baby'? 'Your squeeze' - an oldie there. 'Your old woman' definitely out.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 4:37 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Oct 13, 2021, at 2:15 PM, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 13/10/2021 00:03, billw wrote:<br>
>> I also tell guys never, ever call your woman's chest 'tits' much less 'titties'.<br>
> <br>
> Maybe a cultural thing here, but I need to qualify this: "unless they do".<br>
> <br>
> Perhaps the standard Anglo-saxon terms are less acceptable in America than they are in their birthplace.<br>
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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.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Dan<br>
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