Would you raise this issue? Unwittingly appropriating/laughing about a term for selling women

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RoderickRules · 21/04/2018 18:25

Community event for a good cause, one of the stands is going to customise zimmer frames and is being promoted as ‘pimp my zimmer’
I have an opportunity to speak to the organiser so I could raise this and ask them to reconsider, would you?

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FlatTopVera · 21/04/2018 18:38

Would you raise this issue? Unwittingly appropriating/laughing about a term for selling women

Ellenripleysalienbaby · 21/04/2018 18:36

Posh my zimmer?

Greymisty · 21/04/2018 18:35

No.

MaxineQuordlepleen · 21/04/2018 18:35

Yeah, I would. I’d suggest “posh” or “glam” my zimmer or anything really but that. It’s vile.

Ellenripleysalienbaby · 21/04/2018 18:33

Cross Post!

Mogleflop · 21/04/2018 18:33

Probably not. Pick your battles!

It's a popular thing (pimp my ride, my house, etc...) so if you were going to pick on anything it would be trying too hard to be Down With The Kids

Ellenripleysalienbaby · 21/04/2018 18:32

Hmmm, no I don't think I would. The word 'pimp' has also come to mean to customise something, usually in an OTT way, as in 'Pimp my Ride'. That is where it comes from and it is a different meaning to the prostitute pimp isn't it?

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 21/04/2018 18:32

Doesn't pimp also mean Bling up these days?
As in Pimp My Ride?

littlecabbage · 21/04/2018 18:32

No, I wouldn't bother. Better to concentrate on more pressing issues of misogyny, rather than alienating people due to being pedantic.

northbynorthwesty · 21/04/2018 18:30

No.

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