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Damn, Native American Freshwoman Xochitl Torres Small went down in NM-2 (Original Post) Celerity Nov 2020 OP
This was always going to be tough to win. RandySF Nov 2020 #1
Good in a snarky sense carpetbagger Nov 2020 #2
What is a Freshwoman? left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 #3
1st term female. Are you one of those people who insist on calling us women by male gendered Celerity Nov 2020 #4
Please don't attack me for asking the question left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 #5
I never have either lunatica Nov 2020 #6
I think the correct term would be 'first term representative' left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 #7
Freshman is the usual. Established gender neutral by use and custom. Hortensis Nov 2020 #8
It's a widely used term lunatica Nov 2020 #9
Me neither. Congrats on your next stage of life. :) Hortensis Nov 2020 #10
So far it's turning out to be my best decade! lunatica Nov 2020 #11
Love to hear it! Won't tell my husband of 50 years, but Hortensis Nov 2020 #12
Yeah, I realized I was one of those people lunatica Nov 2020 #13
You bet, and thank goodness. We once had a very sweet Hortensis Nov 2020 #14

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Freshman is the usual. Established gender neutral by use and custom.
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 04:58 AM
Nov 2020

Very sorry to hear this, a disappointment that voters in this Republican-dominant district failed to live up to hopes.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
9. It's a widely used term
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 11:56 AM
Nov 2020

In schools and colleges it’s never been questioned as far as I know. I just retired from UC Berkeley and I don’t recall it ever being an issue. Ever.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
11. So far it's turning out to be my best decade!
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 12:36 PM
Nov 2020

Once I hit 50 my horrible menopause was over and I was divorced and starting over. On my own each decade turned out to be great and everything just got better and better. I was happy on my own. Now, in my first decade of retirement I’m really enjoying it so far!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
12. Love to hear it! Won't tell my husband of 50 years, but
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 01:28 PM
Nov 2020

if I had a bucket list, at least a period of being single and free and limited only by my own choices would definitely be on it.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
13. Yeah, I realized I was one of those people
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 01:40 PM
Nov 2020

who would never do well in a marriage. I lasted 15 years but I felt like I was dying from the inside out. It was my problem, and is nothing I would expect anyone else to have. It was just me. I’m just happy I discovered it about myself with plenty of time to thrive on my own.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
14. You bet, and thank goodness. We once had a very sweet
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 02:27 PM
Nov 2020

neighbor in West Hollywood who'd married very young, in a faraway country and long-ago era. She had a happy nature anyway, but she was openly and unapologetically thrilled with her new freedom when her authoritarian husband died. In her 80s. Time to thrive on her own, if not plenty.


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