Loss of femininity

[mcshroom]

Returning to the OP, I don't see a dress/skirt is any more or less feminine than trousers

 

[Belly]

Slightly off topic, but...when I worked in an office it used to mildly annoy me that the blokes had to wear a shirt and tie (and trousers of course) while the women could wear whatever they liked. Jeans and casual tops were the norm.
It's the same when you watch TV news and current affairs programmes. Kirsty Wark wears some outfits that wouldn't look out of place in a circus, while her male colleagues on Newsnight wear suits and ties.
There. I feel better now...

 

[Fab Foodie]

you know don't you that, scared of bucking the flow, rocking the boat, upsetting the applecart...blah de blah...there will be those that just resort to dying a little inside every time you do this?

No, really?

 

[MontyVeda]

Everyone gets called 'marra' round here ...

...

and Jam Eater

edit
Going back to the subtopic... I used to introduce my last 'partner' to the more pc members of my circle of friends by saying 'ave you met mi bird? in a gravelly northern accent. some of the reactions were priceless

 

[srw]

Remind me. Is it 2011 or 1970?

I know I shouldn't get dragged into this sort of blokey anecdote-fest...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The collective noun I use at work for teams, mixed or single gender, is "Guys", as in "Guys, what do you think?" but I've been hauled up before the PC police so many times for so many things that this doesn't even get on the radar any more.

As a sometime rugby ref it was easy to ask both the skippers of women's rugby teams how they would like to be addressed ("Lads" being pretty much the standard mode of address for male teams or perhaps "Now then gentlemen" if you are telling them off). The responses were often surprising "Ladies" was very popular, "Girls" more common, with "whatever ever you like so long as it isn't dear or darling, the ref we had last week was a right patronising tw*t, and he couldn't keep up either!" being a commonly expressed wish. The only problem I recall arose when one side "Girls" and the other said "we are a ladies rugby team". Oh how I wound them up over that. "Blue seven, that wasn't very ladylike, do it again and you'll have a 10 minute rest"

 

[Fab Foodie]

Remind me. Is it 2011 or 1970?

I know I shouldn't get dragged into this sort of blokey anecdote-fest...

G'wan, let your hair down, it's Friday night!

 

[mcshroom]

I know I shouldn't get dragged into this sort of blokey anecdote-fest...

Forums are about talking to people who have experiences or opinions that differ with your own are they not?

I'm not sure how a majority of these posts could be described as 'blokey' (which btw is a deliberately derrogative term - I thought that was the original objection).

 

[Noodley]

Is "guys" not a non-gender term nowadays?

anyways around here it is "loons" for males and "lasses" or "lassies" for females.

And we wear kilts.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Is "guys" not a non-gender term nowadays?

AFAIK, 'guys' is soooo non-gender these days.

 

[keyser soze]

My missus gets a cob on when I call her 'bro'... I thought equality was the new black...

 

[Silver Fox]

Four pages and its not locked, still time I suppose

 

[Vapin' Joe]

And we wear kilts.

Or, as the rest of the world call them, skirts.

 

[XmisterIS]

Women at our work have a female version of our clothes to wear, with the choice of trousers or skirts,Managers wear their own clothes and most women prefer trousers /slacks.

Some people have all the luck! Where i work, we have to borrow clothes from Oxfam ...

 

[srw]

Remind me. Is it 2011 or 1970?

Ladies, gentlemen, boys, girls, guys, gals, apologies.

I had a bad day yesterday and let it spill over into the cafe. Sorry.