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Question for the Ladies, Men Can Answer as well if they want to
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Why do you disagree with what i said? Thats partially why women relate to each other differently, besides gender identity.
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Being male or female isnt about sperm eggs or private parts it just means male or female. If marriage didnt exist people would still have male and female parts without reproduction.
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Thank you
That was interesting.
Yeah, I was just wondering about the term. But I asked other women offline as well, and most of them said they don't have a problem with it, and they don't feel it as disrespect.
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Your understanding of men and women, communicating with others and expressing your ideas at large.
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He or she are descriptions that are appropriate to apply to people of certain physicalities they arent what those reproductive systems created-meaning sperm doesnt create the pronoun he-those terms existed in self existence and are appropriate to apply to people of biological sexes that involve sperm.
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Jesus hung out with people rejected by normal standards means people considered "normal" might do better with certain things and nobody is perfect, but two wrongs dont make a right.
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I'm with you on this. I've always found it discomforting when my friends (male and female, even religious ones) address women as "chicks". It's rude to call someone an animal.
Such practice has been linked to negative connotations throughout history. Derogatory terms such as "pigs", "wolves", "donkey", "badger", "chicken", "rat", "whale", and then of course the notorious "dog".
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When I was a kid, "fox" was also used for attractive women, and "stud" was used for attractive men.
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I see. Well unfortunately those two positive ones have died out, leaving only its less than pleasant counterpart; making it perfectly sensible to me for @Introverted1293 to find the word unsettling as I do. Like I have said, it's not very nice to refer to a person as an animal.. Not to mention, the slang "chick" has been perpetuated by less than appropriate culture to objectify women.
chick
n. A girl.
Chick is not necessarily derogatory, however many women find it offensive because of its flippant nature. Source - Urban Dictionary: chick
chick
n. Young woman.
This word is considered offensive by many women. Source - Cambridge Dictionary: chick
etymology
Chick is considered by many women a derogatory term. Why is that? Probably because its primary meaning is that of young bird especially of domestic fowl, more commonly a baby chicken, if you will.
But wait a minute, chicks are pretty fluffy yellow things, they symbolize spring, re-birth, and they are adorably cute too, so the term should be seen a compliment. It might be until we realize that the idiom, "bird brained" refers to a person regarded as silly or stupid. And chickens are famously recognized as being stupid animals. Therefore, chick can describe a pretty (and usually) very young female, but it also implies that the woman is vacuous and empty-headed.
Overall, chick, I would argue carries more negative connotations than positive ones. - Mary Lou A
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I don't find it insulting as much as I find the person saying it really off-putting. I'm not any sort of animal, least not a little bird. I'm a human being.
I do find the various slang words we have for women to be quite dehumanizing, sometimes demeaning, and pretty unnecessary tbh.. but as for 'offended'? Well, I'm not going to gasp and cry and shout about it if I hear you saying it. I wont feel the feeling of being offended over it. I'll most likely go 'ew' and walk away never to talk to you again though, if I heard you refer to any woman like that. - Anonymous
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"Chick" originally referred to young children; for example, a mother might say "Oh, I need to gather my chicks for church." so when people started to use it to refer to adult women, it was extremely offensive. My mom was as opposed to my use of the word "chick". "Dude" originally meant a well dressed man. Sooo.. no, those terms aren't equals at all. - IfWishez
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I don't particularly like it. I find its usually used by men that don't treat women like full individual human beings. It's dehumanizing (literally calling them an animal) and infantilizing. It would be like calling all men puppies or something... - ladyintheatre
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"Chick" is a dehumanizing diminutive. The root word is "bird" and the two terms have been used to refer to women as subhuman objects of desire worthy of being "kept" by a man (read "caged").
Of course it's insulting. This is a term that has been devised by male, patriarchal, heterosexual culture to constantly convince themselves and women that women are objects of desire for men and subpar to men.
The ways in which this word is justified usually boils down to the following:
┃ "Chicks" is like "dudes"
No, it's not. First of all, we've seen an increasing reference to women as "dudes". "Dude" is a term that refers to companionship, brotherhood, and fellowship. It's not a diminutive and it does not have an objectifying / dehumanizing factor to it.
┃ Come on, no one means to be dehumanizing when they use it!
Intention is not the only thing that factors into the use of the word. That chick is offensive is on the same lines as the term "n*****". - EnergyCritic
I do find the various slang words we have for women to be quite dehumanizing, sometimes demeaning, and pretty unnecessary tbh.. but as for 'offended'? Well, I'm not going to gasp and cry and shout about it if I hear you saying it. I wont feel the feeling of being offended over it. I'll most likely go 'ew' and walk away never to talk to you again though, if I heard you refer to any woman like that. - Anonymous
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"Chick" originally referred to young children; for example, a mother might say "Oh, I need to gather my chicks for church." so when people started to use it to refer to adult women, it was extremely offensive. My mom was as opposed to my use of the word "chick". "Dude" originally meant a well dressed man. Sooo.. no, those terms aren't equals at all. - IfWishez
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I don't particularly like it. I find its usually used by men that don't treat women like full individual human beings. It's dehumanizing (literally calling them an animal) and infantilizing. It would be like calling all men puppies or something... - ladyintheatre
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"Chick" is a dehumanizing diminutive. The root word is "bird" and the two terms have been used to refer to women as subhuman objects of desire worthy of being "kept" by a man (read "caged").
Of course it's insulting. This is a term that has been devised by male, patriarchal, heterosexual culture to constantly convince themselves and women that women are objects of desire for men and subpar to men.
The ways in which this word is justified usually boils down to the following:
┃ "Chicks" is like "dudes"
No, it's not. First of all, we've seen an increasing reference to women as "dudes". "Dude" is a term that refers to companionship, brotherhood, and fellowship. It's not a diminutive and it does not have an objectifying / dehumanizing factor to it.
┃ Come on, no one means to be dehumanizing when they use it!
Intention is not the only thing that factors into the use of the word. That chick is offensive is on the same lines as the term "n*****". - EnergyCritic
Dehumanising, infantilising, condescending, distasteful. I wouldn't recommend.
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Oh, by the way.. I figured you might need to be reminded of this:
So? "Stud" has it's unsavory connotations as well.
Some people don't already have enough tribulation in their lives.
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??? Pay attention to my previous posts. "Unkind." I see no reason to use words that can potentially hurt others when there are already actual terms to describe a female human; "lady, girl, woman, lass..".
I'm not here to convince you to change your ways, RDKirk. By all means, do what you want. Good bye.
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Rude is subjective. My wife and her friends call each other “chick” and none of them think it’s rude...
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