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In reply to the discussion: What do you think of the word "unladylike"? [View all]Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)let's pretend that colloquialisms are not subject to rapidly changing and manipulated re-treads on words that had obvious meanings in their context prior to social engineering by way of the manipulation of verbal symbols.
Most of us know that means to be rather polite an proper in a social situation, to speak in the most general sense. To be a gentleman has the same connotation. Gentle as opposed to rude, brutish, violent, etc. That's not necessarily a cultural device since being kind and good to others is a way to get along and can be a benefit to the person who ascribes to that way of being.
If ladylike and being a gentleman are not mutually inclusive correlatives for acting "civilized" in a previously gender-oriented way of relating them, then we are probably on some sexism agenda and charges will be made with sentencing to follow.
It really is not hard to see the context of words and gender as it changes, (more rapidly so that you can hardly keep up) over time.
Otherwise, that's entertainment!!!!