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to think mumsnetters have overreacted

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mother2b · 22/06/2007 12:04

i think that racism is worng and am very anti racism, but i also think that its things like over reacting to chinky when all the poor lady meant was to go for a chinese is what is making our world so overly PC, was a little thoughtless but wasnt meant to be racist.

i just think that its was completely blown out of all proportion!!!

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Quattrocento · 22/06/2007 17:09

Have to go and drink now. I'll have one for M2B as well. See how I think of you?

UnquietDad · 22/06/2007 17:08

Look at the porps on that buxom wench Beeny.

lionheart · 22/06/2007 16:59

As in porps?

Quattrocento · 22/06/2007 16:58

Those probably should be called porperty

lionheart · 22/06/2007 16:58

You're missing your wench-hood, Quattro, it's understandable.

Quattrocento · 22/06/2007 16:56

UQD we were having a vairy refained discussion about the meaning of wench and you had to take us straight to the gutter.

Spose I should be grateful she was dressed.

Thanks for OED definition Molesworth. In my dreams I was a bit of a wench but those days (if they ever existed) are now but a distant memory

lionheart · 22/06/2007 16:55

Property (I don't think there is such a thing as a porperty.)

lionheart · 22/06/2007 16:54

Steady on there, UQD.

Shouldn't that be posted in the porperty section?

UnquietDad · 22/06/2007 16:54

Sarah packs peanuts

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mother2b · 22/06/2007 16:54

*boobs

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mother2b · 22/06/2007 16:53

her boob where looking at me

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UnquietDad · 22/06/2007 16:53

A comely, buxom wench!

Molesworth · 22/06/2007 16:50

Here from the OED:

a. A girl, maid, young woman; a female child. Now dial.

b. A girl of the rustic or working class.

c. As a familiar or endearing form of address; used chiefly in addressing a daughter, wife, or sweetheart. Now only dial. or arch.

  1. A wanton woman; a mistress. Obs. exc. arch.
    More explicitly common, light, or wanton wench, wench of the stews.

  2. A female servant, maidservant, serving-maid; also {dag}handmaid, {dag}bondwoman.

lionheart · 22/06/2007 16:48

Strumpet is a great word.

Wench is often prefixed by comely or buxom so I would have thought it is worthy of reclamation.

curiouscat · 22/06/2007 16:48

Hello can I just say how happy I am to read all the above, agree with non-use of racist terms etc because I'm visiting my MIL tonight who some time ago gave my 3 year old a copy of 'Little Black Sambo' and got all huffy when I wouldn't read it to her

This thread reminds me I'm not the only one trying to improve language use generation by generation. Thanks, all.

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mother2b · 22/06/2007 16:47

so it does?

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Quattrocento · 22/06/2007 16:45

dictionary.reference.com/browse/wench

Although that's not a PROPER dictionary like my (sadly and geekily) beloved OED.

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mother2b · 22/06/2007 16:40

have just googled it and always thought it ment slut/whore/generally easy, but i suppose that is how my generation use it, meanings of words change!

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Quattrocento · 22/06/2007 16:29

By the way, now that we have sailed into calmer waters, is "wench" an inflammatory word? Are wenches insulted by the term wench? Is there a long and dishonourable history associated with oppressing wenches? Have I inadvertently offended the memory of Mrs Pankhurst?

lionheart · 22/06/2007 16:23

Emily Lloyd subsequently pootled off to Hollywood but made the headlines, I believe, for making an ill-judged comment about Hollywood being controlled by Jews.

Maybe that's why it also comes to mind.

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mother2b · 22/06/2007 16:19

thank you

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Mercy · 22/06/2007 16:18

m2b, it's just the way threads go sometimes, I'm afraid. You'll get used to it!!

And congratulations btw

Quattrocento · 22/06/2007 16:11
Grin
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mother2b · 22/06/2007 16:07

nope misread my own sentance, did mean too!

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mother2b · 22/06/2007 16:06

*to, not too

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