I was responding to something someone said in a conversation about a particular phrase when addressing another person. I think I am going to pass on arguing something that is not relevant or being understood out of context.
“Yo!” I’m from the Philly area.
I think that someone who refuses to answer simple questions has no right to ask them.
You’re done with the sixties? Ye gods, Ed. You show every indication of still living there. Is your tv still only showing black and white? Is I Love Lucy a hot topic around your water cooler?
I agree with this. Definitely how people respond has been influenced by how they were raised and where they were raised.
Perhaps this is something that can be seen from many perspectives. Many times we, both liberal or conservative, are afraid of what we disagree with and are afraid that that person’s point of view may end up ruling us. In some countries that can happen. Not too much of a problem in countries that allow different points of view. At least not yet but your next comment is a little concerning.
Hopefully we will always be allowed to have our own opinions and points of view, even in a modern world. Can you imagine a future that dictated how you were allowed to think.
When I lived in the South, it was considered polite for children to refer to adult women as Miss [first name] regardless of age. Men were sometimes called Mr. [first name], but not as often. I was in the Marine Corps then, so maybe it was a military thing as much as a southern thing.
Um, I read 1984. Whatever our problems, they are nothing like the problems detailed in that book.
A lot of the older shows have become very popular among parents today. There isn’t much at all in today’s television shows that a family can sit and watch together. If you do find a show that a family can watch, the commercials are inappropriate.
Ed, surely you remember the good old days when it was acceptable for an employer to not hire a woman for no reason other than she was married. That is why women went to using Ms. By putting Ms. on their application, a potential employer who intended to discriminate and not hire a married woman had a bit of a more difficult job in doing so. Plenty of young woman who weren’t married were happy to use “Ms.” also, so the assumption that one who used Ms. married was quickly proven false.
The good thing today is that there is so much out there to choose from. There are family channels, and non-broadcast options like Netflix have family programming also. In the old days with only 3 channels, sometimes there was no good choice.