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Me and the missus - sorry - DP were discussing the increasingly tedious issue of Keys and Gray yesterday, and in particular "I'll bet you were hanging out of it every night."

The missus - sorry - my DP was most insistent that the use of the word 'it' objectified the woman involved. She was less than convinced my my explanation that they were talking about an ex-girlfirend, so it hardly mattered if they called her 'it', 'looneytunes' or used the woman's name.

She wasn't having it.

So I asked her what she called my penis.

She looked a bit flumuxed for a minute, 'what do I call it?" she asked.

I pointed out that I had various names for her bits and pieces that did not involve the impersonal 'it'.... though curiously a clitorus is refered to as it (check your biology text books on that one)

I just thought I'd mention how odd it is that when the 'it' refers to is a vagina, the 'it' becomes offensive becomes somhow 'it' refers to the whole person. Yet when the 'it' refers to a penis... well it's different because it's a thingy.

Ok I'll sorry, I just wanted to share with the group. I'll go and switch the urn on.

Right who's up for the drumming workshop?

'constructive'..'with respect'..all the same innit?

I'm not the dadsnet police force. ( if I were things would be VEEEERRY different round here!)

yes, some things said by newbies in particular can be a bit off-beam. They have just arrived from RL and haven't decompressed and had the micro-chip fitted....so they get leeway, til someone screams has a quiet word with them.

and you? There actually people physically scared of you round here. Though you are only words on a screen.......aren't you?

don't be silly, Pan

have pm'ed you

~I was trying to be all Kofi Anan'ish and charming too!!

this gaff needs completely re-decorating, btw

the magnolia is a bit meh

wrong thread AF. And it isn't magnolia you dumbwit. It's washed-out cornsilk.

these walls are a bit tacky

you just don't stop do you??