Is there a woman alive who still uses the word 'Panties' ?

[MILlovesBegonias]

& I'm not talking about for little kids. I HATE this word. I confess I'm biased as I had some unfortunate incidents as a kid but really? Panties, it's SO old-fashioned. Yet I saw the word used in signage in Victoria's Secret today. It just gets under my skin. Knickers, pants, kecks, grundies, ANYTHING but panties.... bleurgh...

Barry White, the Walrus of Lurve, rumbling on about 'baby blue panties' at 40 secs (sex?) in:

I can’t stand the word, it makes me cringe. In fact, I loathe it so much that the DC were banned from uttering it - it was referred to as “the P word” in our house! I had no problem with any other term for underwear - the DC could refer to them as knickers, pants, kecks, trollies, briefs, undies, whatever. But not the P word!

My MIL!!! She taught my four year old.
It's one of the only times I've put my foot down with her, and told her under no circumstance was she to use the word panties in front of my daughter.

I not only hate the word, but it also conjures up seedy images,
Yuck yuck yuck

I do. Deal with it.

It's American. It's pants 😂

A Brit friend of mine lives in US and is a nurse in a gynae ward.
She cringes to say 'panties' and now just uses 'underwear'

It is a word that sounds too babyfied and sexual, so makes me cringe

It makes my skin crawl. If I hear it, I can feel myself shrivelling up like a salted slug.

'PANTIES' sounds like something someone would say in a porn film.

So I have heard. I have never seen one!

If my husband ever asked me to remove my 'panties', I think my vagina would shrivel up and my womb would fall out instantly.

My Aunty does (but she’s 90 this year) I do cringe a bit when she says it to her great granddaughters

There’s definitely something ‘soft porn’ about it in the UK, but it’s mad as it’s no different to knickers really 🤷🏻‍♀️ I don’t mind a bloke I’m having sex with calling them panties at appropriate moments. Except I’d probably be booking in a spec savers visit for him as they’re more reminiscent of Apple catchers than anything one would refer to as panties 🤣

But HarryDaylight you’re the one who sounds like they have ‘shit for brains’ not people using the word panties

Sure it's a great word!

Ugh! It’s my worst word too!
It’s so cringy & bleurgh.
For me it has connotations of dirty, pervy old men. Shudder.

I love the word panties......but then I'm male so I suppose it doesn't count 😁.

I did date someone last year who called her big unsexy ones..."granny panties".

It's an awful word. Too twee for words. But one person I know used to call them "unmentionables" because she thought "knickers" was a vulgar term.

YANBU-downright creepy. Shudder.

I was about to say, yes, Victoria's Secret and then I read the rest of your post. As well as on signage, the employees there are made to say panties too!

My son says pantalons (not pantaloons, apparently that would be silly ) in reference to any knicker/pant item.

Slightly better than his older brother who once decided all pants should be known as bumderwear. Thankfully that only lasted a few days!:o

I've never heard it used in the UK, only as panty liners.

YANBU but like many others have said, it's common in the US.

A few years ago I used to read a sort of fashion blog written by an American woman and she stated that in the UK panties were called pants, knickers or undercrackers. The last one made me laugh and I will say it occasionally to (adult) dd who read the same blog, but I have never heard anyone else use this term or is it a regional/young thing?

I have never heard it said out loud. It's a very american term.

Wouldn't make me feel sick though - not envy! :)

American here and yes it’s an American term which seems to get some people easily annoyed 🙄.

I say pants or underwear because knickers sound way too close to the N-word.. Took a bit of time not to inwardly cringe every time I heard someone say it when I moved to the UK.

VS is a US company and they call them panties there because pants are trousers, knickers are knee length trousers (as in knicker-bockers), etc.
Just live with it.

DH used to calm them panties (he's American) and the first time he did it I flipped out and called him a creepy Percy arsehole. Now whenever someone else says it in front of me he has a little chuckle and looks scared.

OMG. 'Call' and 'pervy'.