Who else hates being addressed as Ms

[EmtheFishLady]

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I DID NOT hijack this! Why do I always get the blame for Hijacking?

Umm, then why are you known as Ms kleptothreadiac, ma'am?

Bird is the kleptothreadiac! I was never called a keptothreadiac!

 

[PaulaSB12]

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In Leicester you tend to get called me duck. In Kettering (because of the people in Corby) you get called hen just as bad.

 

[rancher hicks]

Well I sound like a woman on the phone and I get it all the time. Makes it easy to imitate my wife.

 

[KristyHall]

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In Leicester you tend to get called me duck. In Kettering (because of the people in Corby) you get called hen just as bad.

i am guilty of calling people hun, sugar, sweety, and darling.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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In Leicester you tend to get called me duck. In Kettering (because of the people in Corby) you get called hen just as bad.

i am guilty of calling people hun, sugar, sweety, and darling.

I call my close friends and family names like that, but never strangers.

 

[KristyHall]

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i am guilty of calling people hun, sugar, sweety, and darling.

I call my close friends and family names like that, but never strangers.

i call strange children that if I run into them or something, "Oh! I'm sorry sweety!" or when I am trying to gently break something to someone I don't know well I'll say " Hun..." then my message

 

[babylady4]

Today I addressed a lady as M'am......

she had dropped a bottle of juice off her cart and I needed to get her attention. I immediately thought of this thread after I said it!

 

[chocolate m'scovy]

I don't care for the title "Ms." either. It just seems like a feminist title: "If you can't tell a guy's marital status through his title why should it be different for the girls?" Or so the reasoning might go.

Anyway, it seems like the title for a grouchy old spinster. If I know someone's last name, and they are 1. married or 2. obviously older than I ....I will call them "Mr." or "Mrs." If I don't know their name-for example, if I need the attention of a store employee-I will just say "Sir" or "Ma'am." I think these more "old-fashioned" names show more respect. And that's a good thing!

 

[RoeDylanda]

Well, I'm not a grouchy old spinster, and I like "Ms."

I love my last name, I'm the end of the line for my family (no males in the next generation), and I'm an RN with a nice short last name married to a lovely man with a much longer one that I don't want to have to write out 75 times per shift, so I kept my name. "Mrs." in my situation just sounds weird. Both my husband and my in-laws are fine with it!

Nobody attempting to speak respectfully or kindly to me will get any static whatsoever, no matter what they call me.

ETA: No "matter," not "no natter!"

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

I like being addressed as Ms.

I did not change my last name so Miss is incorrect and Mrs. is my mother. So Ms. is the closest to right you can get.

Did any of you hear about the guy who got married and requested to change his name to his wife's? She had children and he wanted the family to all have the same last name. (Sounds like a great guy to me.) the Court said yes and then said no that a man cannot simply change his name when he gets married that this is a privilege reserved for women.... A not actually legal customary loophole

Grr......