to loathe the word "manshape"

[OhdearNigel]

It makes my teeth bleed.

kenobi - that's just scary.

Well if other people want to copy her and use it too then let them.

I don't generally use the D-type acronyms and I never use AF or, heaven forbid, BD (baby dancing). I don't start threads in AIBU about other people using them either. I find anyone who says "babydust" utterly vom-worthy.

Since MN haven't banned us from saying cunt fuck and twat, they are unlikely to think manshape is unacceptable.

it's ok not to like it yourself. I don't like it much either. That's why I don't use it. It isn't reasonable to expect everyone to like and use the same phrases as you.

How about bubbaflubba?

We have names such as anyfucker. (which I love) We say cunt and twunt and twat and dickhead, asrsewipe, fuckwit and what not. And I find the name Nigel as teeth itching as anything. Why give a toss about "manshape"?

Txt spk makes my brain bleed. And it is offensive to my eyes. It's been slowly creeping onto MN lately. I shall flounce if it gets as bad as facebook. You are using a keyboard, people, it's not hard to add vowels.

I couldn't give two shiney shites what people call those they share their life with. I seriously can think of about a million things that irritate me more and that's just this afternoon.

Maybe Dee's explanation should be added to the Talk Guidelines so save any further eleventy zillion threads on it.

I did think it a little twee at first but I happen to like Dee and respect her reasons and it's grown on me.

I also love her "I love the very bones of him" , very touching.

I don't like it either, it's a horrible term in my opinion. I think the people who leap up to defend it are being silly and also bandwagon-jumping, the person who uses the term obviously doesn't care otherwise they'd stop using it on a chatboard. She obviously doesn't mind the comments or would find an incongruous term like 'partner' or some other term/word that wouldn't invite comment.

You can't take ownership of a 'term' and apply it for personal sacred use on a forum. Your choice to use it, others choose to like/dislike it. I find it offensive and disrespectful; it would certainly be roundly leapt on were it applied to a woman.

It makes me imagine that Dee lives with a giant metal ginger bread man cutter. I get a total montage of them doing stuff together like sitting together watching TV, putting the Xmas tree up....

isn't this a thread about a thread?

bit rude, imo

Witch If 'manshape' were applied to a woman I'd expect it to be roundly leapt on.
Wiggles Sounds like you're having one hell of an afternoon, have a .
Kenobi Are you a Jedi?

I am really fighting the urge to change my nickname to Womanshape.

Yes Art-that´s what it makes me think of-a shape, but nothing real!

Empress can't you feel my presence?

Nickname I think you should go for woMANshape and see how many people you can aggravate.

damn coding

Progress indeed - we are now publicly allowed to cringe at this ghastly word? So OP yanbu, very much not!

Kenobi - I like the way you think!

poor deemented having to defend this again and again

really are people that bored they have to start yet another thread picking on this poor poster??

you all like swearing all the effing time yet get offended by something so, um, ridiculous

...so what DOES AF stand for? I'm not lying by the way - I honestly thought it was people referring coyly to AnyFucker. I think this answer may change the entire jist of some of the threads I've read...

gist not jist. FFS.

Though that's a word that makes me go 'mehhurgh' - jism.

kenobi AuntieFlo I think, meaning period (no idea why).

We could have done with you on the derailers thread last week when someone ate Darth Vader's cupcakes. All sorted now though.

I've seen other people using the term, southeastastra. Deemented doesnt' have to defend herself at all, she wants to use the term and does. It's no different from any other term that people use and others dislike and comment on. Some posters like being a bit notorious, I think.

AF = Aunt Flo, from the saying "I'm being visited by Aunt Flo for a few days" or "Aunt Flo has come for a visit" as a creepy polite way of saying that someone is on their period.

AuntieFlo? Christ on a stick.

Aw what a pity. I love a good thread derailing. Preferably one where I can take out my big pole and wave it around, feeling everyone's presence and defending moist juicy cakes oh shut up

We solved it by bringing in a cloning machine. Darth still hasn't been round for his cakes but when he comes they'll be all ready