EU bans use of 'Miss' and 'Mrs'.............

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Well next thing you know. Will happen...

Is when a baby is born.

Dr: It is a Baby!

Mom: Well is it a boy or girl?

Dr: I can not tell you that. All I can say.. To be politically correct, that it is a Human Baby. I don't want to be sexist about it.

Mom: :scratch: Uhh OK. Then what shall I name the baby?

The whole thing is stupid!
 
Babyblue said:
Well next thing you know. Will happen...

Is when a baby is born.

Dr: It is a Baby!

Mom: Well is it a boy or girl?

Dr: I can not tell you that. All I can say.. To be politically correct, that it is a Human Baby. I don't want to be sexist about it.

Mom: :scratch: Uhh OK. Then what shall I name the baby?

The whole thing is stupid!
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"nods"
 
Babyblue said:
Well next thing you know. Will happen...

Is when a baby is born.

Dr: It is a Baby!

Mom: Well is it a boy or girl?

Dr: I can not tell you that. All I can say.. To be politically correct, that it is a Human Baby. I don't want to be sexist about it.

Mom: :scratch: Uhh OK. Then what shall I name the baby?

The whole thing is stupid!
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:laugh2:
 
that totally nuts!

IF i got married somedays i would become Mrs! but i can still as Miss but mostly people dont mind about titles whether chose!
 
:scratch: EU is definitely a nutcase for confusin' people's minds. It wasn't banned before... why now ?
 
Babyblue said:
Well next thing you know. Will happen...

Is when a baby is born.

Dr: It is a Baby!

Mom: Well is it a boy or girl?

Dr: I can not tell you that. All I can say.. To be politically correct, that it is a Human Baby. I don't want to be sexist about it.

Mom: :scratch: Uhh OK. Then what shall I name the baby?

The whole thing is stupid!
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simple - does this human baby have a pecker or donut?
 
Babyblue said:
Well next thing you know. Will happen...

Is when a baby is born.

Dr: It is a Baby!

Mom: Well is it a boy or girl?

Dr: I can not tell you that. All I can say.. To be politically correct, that it is a Human Baby. I don't want to be sexist about it.

Mom: :scratch: Uhh OK. Then what shall I name the baby?

The whole thing is stupid!
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I agree, The whole thing is fallacious. The 'Political Correct' issue has went a bit too far. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for gender-equality but as for addressing 'Miss', 'Ms.', 'Mr.', so and on, that is also an etiquette as to how to address a person which I don't see anything wrong with.

As for naming the baby - There's always Unisex names. :)
 
Jolie77 said:
I agree, The whole thing is fallacious. The 'Political Correct' issue has went a bit too far. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for gender-equality but as for addressing 'Miss', 'Ms.', 'Mr.', so and on, that is also an etiquette as to how to address a person which I don't see anything wrong with.

As for naming the baby - There's always Unisex names. :)
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Yeah, all future EU leaders shall henceforth become known as Bozo and Bozarita when they get their positions! :giggle:
 
Reba said:
I hate to give the EU any more PC ideas but the American hospitality industry has been using the gender neutral terms "server" and "wait staff" for years. :lol:[/QUOTE}

At least I dont have to worry about my job title getting maimed. Im a cashier, that's it. There's no gender bias in that. (We've got two male cashiers on our shift)
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So whats next? banning "he" and "she"?

Imagine you are in a crowd and you shout "that person have a gun!" some ppl would get confused on WHO have a gun. He or She?

"Who??"

"Over there!"

"Where? All I see is a bunch of guys running like crazy with one girl? Cant see it good?"

"That person in the red shirt!"

"Which red shirt?? All I see is 3 people wearing red shirts."

This is a waste of time. :roll:

Europe is just running out of fresh ideas for the government and everything. So stupid.
 
Hope that doesn't affect to Canada. Since they're on Commonwealth. ha
 
Since we are livin' in Numeric Age -- maybe, EU is tryin' to change the names into somethin' different. Are they goin' to use the term "subject 3436" and etc., etc. for each person in the future ? :hmm:
 
Mrs? Or is that Ms, Miss?

In recent days the European Parliament has again caused "outrage" in the British press after publishing a pamphlet asking staff to refrain from using the titles Miss or Mrs.

"Ludicrous", one Tory MEP told the Daily Mail. "Political correctness gone mad", he continued. Another, in the Daily Telegraph, branded it a "waste of taxpayers' money".

It is more than 30 years since Ms began to gain ground among a US feminist movement keen to find a title which did not denote a woman's marital status.

Decades later - while being a Ms might be seen in Brussels as simple as being, well, a Mr - many elsewhere are less keen to catch on.

'Very unhelpful'

Being a Ms is, frankly, unheard-of in some quarters.

"I don't think it's very helpful," said Charles Kidd, editor of Debretts Peerage and Baronetage - the guide to aristocracy.

"I was brought up to address a married woman as Mrs John Smith, for example."

Being a Ms isn't always plain sailing - with the most mundane tasks often turned into an exhausting battle of principle.

For example, attempting to take out insurance, this conversation is likely to follow:

"Name?", "Jane Smith".


I can't see the point of Ms and I don't see it as an issue

(Miss) Ann Widdecombe MP


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"Marital status?", "married". "Address Mrs Smith?".

"Actually I'm a Ms, Mrs Smith is my mother."

Momentary silence.

Then: "I'm sorry, if you're married you can only be a Mrs. The system won't allow another title."

For married TV producer (Ms) Eve Kay - whose recent projects include Channel 4's Jamie's Ministry of Food - it is a familiar tale.

For example, the time she tried to fill out a criminal records check for a TV series she was producing involving children.

"I was naturally asked for my title. As always, I typed in 'Ms'. At the end of the first page, though, I hit a roadblock.

"The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.

"In their minds Ms is a title that means you have been divorced."

Again, her dealings with insurers have also had their moments.

"I found that married women were given a different premium to unmarried women. Yet, because men are Mr and so they couldn't tell their marital status, there was no change."

Not everyone is hampered by titles showing their marital status.

Bureaucrats, she says, have "lost sight of the fact that we don't want to be denoted by our relationship to men".

Having said that she doesn't agree with the European Parliament's ban of Miss and Mrs.

"You can't impose liberation on people; it has to come from understanding.

"It would be far better if women understood that being a Mrs or Miss is trivialising their independent status."

A title which indicated a woman's relationship to a man was simply "archaic", she said, "a hangover from the past".

Her own straw poll of the office on the issue found: "Women with children do get it and don't much want to be seen as married and over-the-hill or a spinster.

"They can see that marital status being known at work is by no means helpful.

"Whereas young women couldn't see what I was on about, because they hadn't experienced any negative attitudes."

'No point'

Some though, just can't see the point.

Says Miss Ann Widdecombe MP: "I've grown up with that title and it's a perfectly good title. I can't see the point of Ms and I don't see it as an issue.

"It's absolutely ridiculous. These titles have been around for a very long time."

And it needn't be confusing: "I'm not confused. It's everyone else who is.

"I use Ms as a form of convenience if I don't know what they call themselves. But if they mention in a letter that they are married then I'll use Mrs."

Referring to the European Parliament, she said: "They want to make everything unisex. They don't even want to say 'man-made' But man-made is an all-embracing term," she said. It means women too.

For Charles Kidd, of Debrett's: "It's important to get someone's title right. If someone does want to be called Ms then that's fine."

But, he added, he had never been asked to change somebody's title of address from Mrs to Ms.

"I've just never heard of it," he said.

BBC NEWS | UK | Mrs? Or is that Ms, Miss?

Yes, I personally agree that it's absurd to ban "Miss" and "Mrs" because it's waste of taxpayers' money. I would add it in my list at "stupid law" thread http://www.alldeaf.com/strange-stupid-news/54276-stupid-laws.html if they fix the law to ban "Miss" and "Mrs".

I choose to not jump conclusion to this thread yesterday because the links in newspapers, I always read is Deutsche-Welle, World BBC and MSNBC is not come until today. The article from BBC World make sense...

Accord the link, the thread creator posted make no sense to me over "Frau and Fräulein" because I know German government will against EU Union for want to ban... that's why I wait until I get link from one of 3 newspapers.

Here in Germany, they feel offensive if you call them "Fräulein" (Miss) because they are not married. All Germans prefer to call "Mrs" instead of "Miss" or "Ms", no matter either they are married, single and divorced. We used those word to call them "Herr" (Mr.) and "Frau" (Mrs.) as neutral marital status, that's all.

I can understand some people prefer to use "Ms" as a neutral marital status instead of "Mrs." or "Miss". I have no problem to respect them if they prefer to call Ms instead of Miss or Mrs because it's their own preference as the same as I respect single Germans for prefer to call "Mrs."

To my opinion, why women use 3 different marital statuses "Ms", "Miss" and "Mrs" to know who they are, not men? Man's title is just "Mr" for married, unmarried and single as a neutral marital status? Why can't woman do the same... something like that "Ms" for woman to be equal to "Mr" for man as a neutral marital status ? :dunno2:


*sarcasm*

As you know that we women have 3 different marital status "Ms", "Miss" and "Mrs" but why can't men also use 3 different marital status "Mr" (neutral title for married, divorced and unmarried), "Ma" (master=unmarried) and "Mi" (mister=married) to be equal as women "Ms", "Miss" and "Mrs"... as well :lol:


 
JamieLynn said:
I think the politicians in Brussels are bored :roll:

I had to laugh hard at those news... it's so lame though I knew about the flight attendants already...

Jamie
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You know France is few hours away from my area... I went there a lot. I would like to ask you as person who live in France.

Is those word "Mademoiselle" to call single or unmarried French an insult due their age? Correct? They prefer to call "Mme" (Madame) instead of Mademosielle... like here in single Germans who prefer to call "Frau" instead of "Fräulein".

We (Germans and French) have no problem with marital status because we only use Mme and Frau to single or unmarried women but UK... women have 3 different marital status... some feel offensive and have their own preference... but their preference are being ignored... Oh well...





 
it's weird. sometimes i write down, ms. alldeaf in a general one like at work. But i have to write down MRS. alldeaf for my kids' school that they can give the notes to teacher. to be honest, i dont feel comfortbale being called "mrs." because mrs sounds like to me, "old married lady". :dunno:
 
Frisky Feline said:
it's weird. sometimes i write down, ms. alldeaf in a general one like at work. But i have to write down MRS. alldeaf for my kids' school that they can give the notes to teacher. to be honest, i dont feel comfortbale being called "mrs." because mrs sounds like to me, "old married lady". :dunno:
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You don't force to write "Mrs" if you don't feel comfortable with those word... You can write "Ms" if you feel comfortable... It's your own preference.

I have seen a lot of Americans where I work, use "Ms" and "Mrs", not once "Miss". :dunno2:

Here in Germany:
At school or anywhere...

For unmarried parents, have children - they use "Herr xxxxxx" & "Frau xxxxx" instead of "Herr xxxx & Fräulein xxxxx" or "Familie xxxxxx"

For married parents, have children - They use those word "Familie xxxxxxx" instead of "Herr & Frau xxxxxxx"

My hubby & I were at parental evening last Wednesday, my youngest son's teacher call "Familie xxxxxxx" (Family xxxxxx) when we were at waiting room with other parents. (My youngest son's teacher was informed few weeks before parent evening that we both attend) that's why he call "Familie xxxx".



 
Jiro said:
actually - it's just local/state law... not federal. Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it's enforceable. I'm sure some of these ridiculous laws are repealed already. but your post is a good comeback :laugh2:
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:lol::laugh2:
 
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