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why don't girls these days like being called ''birds''?

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Reply 40

SillyFencer
:hahaha:
I thought she might like being called that :awesome: (not). I don't understand why guys do it. It's not exactly flattering is it.

Reply 41

Mikimoto
No, I have heard the term used. I just don't like it. I don't think I would like it any more if I was more exposed to it.

Innit? What the hell is innit?
Innit is short for isn't it! Innit!

Reply 42

Girls in real life dont mind because they don't know, guys dont often say it to their faces.

Girls on TSR mind because they are anal ho's.

Reply 43

viirkokka
Girls in real life dont mind because they don't know, guys dont often say it to their faces.

Girls on TSR mind because they are anal ho's.
This man knows.

Reply 44

farhan
Innit is short for isn't it! Innit!


Isn't it is already short for is not. Maybe we should just shorten the whole thing to I?

Reply 45

only PIGS call girls BIRDS

Reply 46

GodspeedGehenna
Too many trolls on TSR these days. I hope your face explodes.


^^^ This.

Reply 47

It's a pretty rough word to be honest.

Reply 48

Calling women birds was originally a harmless lyric metaphor, which gradually acquired derogatory undertones over time. These shifts in meaning happen to a lot of words - 'gay' and 'queer' are examples of the same kind of thing. It's not being compared to an actual bird women find offensive; it is the undertones the word has acquired in context, which have turned it into a term men often use to belittle women. Do you understand now?

Reply 49

Because where I'm from it's a slightly nice version of a slag and it's chavy. We don't have feathers either...

Reply 50

Mikimoto
Isn't it is already short for is not. Maybe we should just shorten the whole thing to I?
The shortest it goes to is 'init' from 'innit'.

Reply 51

farhan
The shortest it goes to is 'init' from 'innit'.

It shouldn't go any shorter than isn't.

Reply 52

Mikimoto
It shouldn't go any shorter than isn't.
Innit man, I agree.

Reply 53

farhan
Innit man, I agree.


Ugh.

Reply 54

the_alba
Calling women birds was originally a harmless lyric metaphor, which gradually acquired derogatory undertones over time. These shifts in meaning happen to a lot of words - 'gay' and 'queer' are examples of the same kind of thing. It's not being compared to an actual bird women find offensive; it is the undertones the word has acquired in context, which have turned it into a term men often use to belittle women. Do you understand now?


This is true. But for the record I don't mind it. It's just a bit chavvy as everyone has mentioned.

Reply 55

pamelaa
because we are in fact not birds.

:eek: dont lie.

Reply 56

i dont like anyone i dont know referring to by anything other than my name, madam, miss, or a woman. i dont like strangers calling me pet names of any kind because it's derogatory.

Reply 57

None of the girls I know care. It's just slang I don't really know how any girls are getting offended by it. Guys round my way get called geezers all the time, same difference.

Reply 58

vapid slut magician
i dont like anyone i dont know referring to by anything other than my name, madam, miss, or a woman. i dont like strangers calling me pet names of any kind because it's derogatory.


'bird' is hardly a derogatory name for a woman, get over it.

Reply 59

farhan
:dry:

:rolleyes:

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