To all the girls in the
house (be they floaters or posters),
I would like to apologize to each and
everyone of you for my asinine choice of words, posted here a number of days ago. I didn't mean to offend anyone. I had no idea
chicks and
birds were such incredibly offensive words, so much so, to have a genuinely benevolent, innocent thread deleted by the
house moderator. I still don't understand it. The words I used (and only in the thread's title, I should add) were
chicks / birds / ladies / lasses. Everywhere else in the thread, I referred to people of the female gender as
ladies. However, no one will know that now, because the original thread has been removed.
It was titled
'Ok, where are the chicks, birds, ladies, lasses... in here?'. I had started the thread because it felt like I was in a
room full of just guys, in here, no women. That said, I must make it clear that I am not dissing the men here either, absolutely
not. It's just that it really started to feel a bit odd, for me. In my offline life, the majority of my friends are in fact female, (though, unfortunately for me... none of them care to know or love NMA
, and I have tried to enlighten them). Also, none of them, I should add, took such heavy offense to either, the words
chicks or
birds.
So, I still don't get it.
To me
chicks are soft, sweet, warm, fuzzy, adorable and cute; and
birds are truly beautiful, graceful, elegant, magnificent and free. I thought it was ok to use the term
chicks, seeing as how there's a pretty decent (all female) American country outfit that goes by the name of
The Dixie Chicks. Honestly thought it was ok. Figured it was ok for
The Dixie Chicks, to refer to themselves as
chicks, so why would / how could any other women be offended?
Another group I love is
Cranes, fronted by singer Alison Shaw. Seeing, as I'm not from the British isles, I thought
birds was ok too, you know... because Cranes are a type of bird? So I'm still a tad confused as to why
birds is deemed such an incredibly negative word / term. I've been called far worse words than
chick or
bird. Gee... one would've thought I used the words
8ithces or
wh0res or something (to have an innocent thread taken down), but I would
never.
Well, that's where my heart was coming from.
I am so terribly sorry... to
all.
