Dear DU: Here is a teeny-tiny thing you can do to fight subconscious everyday misogyny.

[moniss]

8. I would strongly disagree that addressing someone

by just their last name is somehow bestowing respect. Maybe it depends on the era in which someone grew up but in my era simply calling someone by their last name could be seen as disrespectful unless it was accompanied by Mr., Mrs. or Miss in front of it. Likewise referring to people by their first name alone was not thought of too much one way or the other and using it was about familiarity and thought of more so as being informal as to formal.

I came from a time when people were taught how to address each other and how to refer to people in conversation or writing. Obviously I have become a shell of that person since falling in with the heathens years ago and having enjoyed the experience so much I never left.