Goodbye to Wife, Husband, and Spouse? (1 Viewer)

[efil4stnias]

Life must be stressful when you freak out about every small cultural change. And I wouldn't even call this a cultural change, just a personal choice some people make. The terms wife, husband, etc. are still very much in use. I wonder if people were equally as distressed when the word "paramour" started to fall out of fashion.

Seriously, it's so weird how some people just assume that mid-20th century America is the cultural baseline for all history prior to that point and that every change since then represents a degradation of cultural mores that go back thousands of years. Obviously that is in no way true, but so many people seem to steadfastly believe it.

Also, if the gays were half as powerful as some people seem to think they are, they would be our supreme overlords and rule from a golden fortress in the sky. And honestly, that'd probably be preferable to this ****** world where we get threads like this.

If I had to guess, that "fortress" would resemble the inside of Banana Republic.

 

[RazorOye]

This month I have come across two news articles where they refer to a persons spouse or heterosexual girlfriend as ones partner. Is this the next wave of the barrage we are going to see from the gay marriage agenda pundits?

You could remove some words in this post like so:

This month I have come across two news articles where they ________________. Is this the next wave of the barrage we are going to see from the _________________ agenda pundits?

And by finding complimentary, tin-foil hatted, paranoid pairs of words or phrases, you'd probably generate 75% of Tex's posting history.

for example, this gem on the PDB that gets bumped periodically when he finds proof of a media cabal being manipulated like Chavez did and proof that America is on the verge of communism.

http://saintsreport.com/forums/f60/...no-less-way-than-chavez-has-venezuela-236795/

so that sentence would read:

This month I have come across two news articles where they outline Joe Biden's attempts to limit free speech that weren't reported by the librul media. Is this the next wave of the barrage we are going to see from the apologist media left wing liberal who want to help turn the US into a communist country agenda pundits?

The water is always being carried. The only thing that changes is what's in the buckets from time to time.

 

[RussTKD]

I hate the term 'partner'. Sounds too, I dunno, businesslike.

There was a woman I worked with a long time ago who was gay, and very vague about it. At a Christmas party, she brought her girlfriend and introduced her to me as 'partner'. It was the first time I'd heard that term, and certainly not the first time I'd been around someone who was gay. It was odd... like "yes, I guess I have to admit that I'm really gay, but still can't use a traditional term of endearment".

'Girlfriend' would have more than sufficed.

 

[antipop]

I hate the term 'partner'. Sounds too, I dunno, businesslike.

There was a woman I worked with a long time ago who was gay, and very vague about it. At a Christmas party, she brought her girlfriend and introduced her to me as 'partner'. It was the first time I'd heard that term, and certainly not the first time I'd been around someone who was gay. It was odd... like "yes, I guess I have to admit that I'm really gay, but still can't use a traditional term of endearment".

'Girlfriend' would have more than sufficed.

I am pretty sure that she gets decide how to introduce her significant other

plus a lot of women use the term "girlfriend" to refer to their friends that happen to be women

 

[RussTKD]

I am pretty sure that she gets decide how to introduces her significant other

plus a lot of women use the term "girlfriend" to refer to their friends that happen to be women

I never said she doesn't. I just said that I find the term too clinical or businesslike.

I use a lot of terms to refer to my wife, but nothing that would work on a business card.

 

[RazorOye]

I never said she doesn't. I just said that I find the term too businesslike.

I think it's businesslike, too.

That's why I reserve it for business time...

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[dtc]

I never said she doesn't. I just said that I find the term too clinical or businesslike.

I use a lot of terms to refer to my wife, but nothing that would work on a business card.

So, when I refer to my wife as a rotational bouncing specialist is that too clinical?

 

[Stealth Matrix]

No, really, the best part of the entire article was his face when

I'm glad the baby is okay though. Too many stories where the parents have killed their young children lately. At least this one survived and has a chance out there now.

 

[efil4stnias]

No, really, the best part of the entire article was his face when

I'm glad the baby is okay though. Too many stories where the parents have killed their young children lately. At least this one survived and has a chance out there now.

u bees on wrong thread bro.

 

[gwballin]

No, really, the best part of the entire article was his face when

I'm glad the baby is okay though. Too many stories where the parents have killed their young children lately. At least this one survived and has a chance out there now.

Was the baby's partner also ok?

 

[Stealth Matrix]

u bees on wrong thread bro.

o lawd i is, my bad

 

[lades]

This month I have come across two news articles where they refer to a persons spouse or heterosexual girlfriend as ones partner.

Why do you possibly care what someone else calls someone else's spouse or heterosexual girlfriend?

 

[Lurkaholic]

I hate the term 'partner'. Sounds too, I dunno, businesslike.

There was a woman I worked with a long time ago who was gay, and very vague about it. At a Christmas party, she brought her girlfriend and introduced her to me as 'partner'. It was the first time I'd heard that term, and certainly not the first time I'd been around someone who was gay. It was odd... like "yes, I guess I have to admit that I'm really gay, but still can't use a traditional term of endearment".

'Girlfriend' would have more than sufficed.

I hate the term partner too, but I don't think you get it. You introduce your wife as your wife because you are MARRIED to her. You would, likewise, introduce your fiancée as such because you were engaged to be MARRIED and your girlfriend as your girlfriend because it wasn't that serious yet. Someone who is not legally able to get married has to find a different way to introduce the person he chooses to be in a longterm, committed relationship with. Introducing that person as a boyfriend/girlfriend is demeaning to their relationship because it is more than that, but introducing them as a husband/wife makes you look like a lying tool or an in-your-face agenda pusher. Thankfully, this is slowly changing.

 

[Lurkaholic]

And in regard to the OP, I think you are mistaken about the legal statuses of the people you hear use the term partner. I have ever only heard gay couples who cannot get married and feminist women who have a longterm male companion but refuse to get married use that term. If someone who is legitimately married is using it, then that's just rather ridiculous, as the term is a poor compromise at best.

 

[Saint Sarah]

If I had to guess, that "fortress" would resemble the inside of Banana Republic.

Please, the interior of Banana Republic would be too pedestrian for a gay super fortress. Well for any fortress really, but particularly so for a gay super fortress in the sky.