Miss, Mrs, Ms or Mx?

[Cherchezlaspice]

Which are you? I’m a Ms, and have been since I was about 8 years old. I didn’t change my title (or my name) when I got married and this caused some consternation amongst some of the older members of my family.

This made me realise that most women I know (married or unmarried) use Ms. I don’t think I’ve come across anyone under the age of about 50 who uses ‘Miss’ or ‘Mrs’. And I’ve never encountered a ‘Mx’. I do have a fairly specific demographic bubble, though.

So, I’m curious, which are you/do you use?

I've never liked Mrs. I've always thought it reads like Misters. In the possessive sense I mean. Like defining yourself as belonging to Mr.

I'm Miss, with no plans to change it atm.

Mx is just made up bollocks.

All language is ‘made up bollocks’. I find this need to be rude about other people’s chosen honorifics so odd.

Miss. I'm in my forties, have never been married so Mrs is obviously out. Nothing wrong with Miss.

How silly.

I was a Miss before marriage and a Mrs after taking my husbands surname. It's what I wanted to do but not bothered about what others want to do.

Most people I know have also taken their husbands name after marriage but I haven't a clue if they use Miss, Mrs or Ms. I mean, why would I ask? I do know a few who have kept their maiden names and my unmarried sister is still a Miss despite being in her 50's.

I didn't know that Mx exists. I've never come across it and we don't have it as an option on our database at work all either.

I’m a Ms, but I’m not bothered about using Ms/Miss interchangeably, though Miss kind of makes me feel twelve years old.
I would have stayed Ms if I had gotten married to my ex (which I’m thankful every day I did not) - I’ve just never enjoyed the idea of being a “Mrs”.

I’ve been Ms since I was divorced in 1981 and kept my own name when I remarried 22 years ago. I do answer to Mrs Hisname though - explaining is a pain in the arse.

On the rare occasions I’ve been referred to as ‘Mrs Hisname’ I haven’t actually minded, it’s just taken ages for it to register that they were talking to me. 😂

Very much so in Scotland, until probably as recently as post-WWI - you'll often see headstones in Scottish graveyards attributed to 'Janet McDonald, wife of Donald Kerr' and similar with dates of death up to the late 1920s.

You'll quite often hear Scottish kids shouting 'haw, missus!' to get the attention of any woman of the age of about 21 - it's a diminutive of 'mistress', which was the traditional given way, in Scotland, to address women over a certain age, whether married or unmarried, similar to Senora or Frau.

I'm 43, Scottish and Ms MyName, and that's the way it has always been and will always be.

'Over the age of 21', obviously. Oh, for an edit button.

As a teen I was Ms.

I was Ms MaidenName or Dr MaidenName as the situation dictated, until we had children (8 years after getting married).

I am now Mrs MarriedName or Dr MaidenName as the situation dictates.

Ms

I'm single, never married, one child. middle aged, own home, professional career.

Ms means 'it's private' My status is for me to share if I wish, with whom I wish. Until then, it's irrelevant. 🙂

I was a Miss, now a Mrs. But other people do it differently. My sister is a Ms but kept her XH's name after divorce. Another relation reverted to Miss Maiden Name after her divorce. I don't know a Mx. Sounds like a disease of rabbits.