Now that woman have become "empowered"(along with all the stress)entering the workforce some 30 years ago, has the "Ms" title run it's course?
To me, a "Ms" attitude say's "I'm angry, and I don't like men, and I have hidden agenda's which need to resolved". Truly, do you want to project, or be known as having an attitude of a(slang word) female dog?
What does "Ms" mean to you?
2007-03-27 05:32:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
It means autonomy ... and if placing value upon my autonomy makes me 'project the attitude of a 'female dog', the heck yeah, I'm a ***** all the way!!
BTW, I'm loving the stress of college and career ... maybe working fastfood (which I'm assuming, because of the content of your question, you do) is different?
2007-03-28 04:26:42 · answer #1 · answered by Cristy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I guess its as simple as providing the female equivalent of 'Mr.' It doesn't allude to marital status...it is merely a form of address. Like everything else, women want equality in addressing. No harm, no foul. But it does seem to carry with it the women's rights attitude, sadly. I used to call myself 'Miss'...and I wasn't married until I was 42. But I was criticized and ridiculed...as Miss seemed to people to be an address for a very young woman. Sad that EVERYTHING has to be about equality...as Miss has a much nicer ring to it...
2007-03-27 15:32:31 · answer #2 · answered by Super Ruper 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
As a not very PC man I think "Ms" is a perfectly sensible title still. And I definitely wouldn't assume the woman using it was necessarily a hard-nosed feminist, a "female dog" (Yahoo puts just asterisks if you try to use the b**** word), or covering up or whatever. Though having said that I'm fairly sure there are still plenty of people around who do hold that belief - both male AND female.
Apart from anything else, if I want to write to a woman formally I don't have to risk upsetting her by calling her "Miss" or "Mrs" and getting it wrong.
It works for me.
2007-03-27 12:49:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
To me "Ms." means it's none of your business whether I am married or not. People will discriminate for a number of reasons, but using the prefix "Ms." helps to curb discrimination against either single women or against married women. Also, a woman does not lose her identity just because she is married, as if to say "I WAS Jane Doe but NOW I am Mrs. John Q. Smith". The "Ms." is a way of saying "I am who I am but not because of who I happen to be married to." It has nothing to do with being anti-men, or being some kind of problem child, or anything like that.
2007-03-27 15:23:55 · answer #4 · answered by Loves the Ponies 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Ms. is a general title for a woman who is either unwilling to disclose her personal life, or as an all around psuedonym for strangers. While some women get upset if you call them ma'am, just as many get upset for being called miss ("I've not been a miss for a while, ask my husband", etc.)
Ms. fits both roles, with a limited amount of griping from the person in question.
2007-03-27 12:37:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
I use Ms. I am divorced , not remarried. I therefore am no longer a Miss nor am I a Mrs. When the abbreviation first came out that was what it was suppose to refer to as the divorce rate was climbing.
2007-03-27 12:41:05 · answer #6 · answered by vivib 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It means that the woman who uses it doesn't want to be defined by her marital status, since it has no bearing on her identity as a human being.
I really don't give a sh*t if people like you think I have the attitude of a "female dog."
2007-03-27 13:31:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Most people are called Ms or Mrs based on their marital status. .I think looking so far into the meaning is ridiculous.
Everyone is individual, just because someone is single and called Ms. so and so, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are angry and don't like men. It merely means they are single and not married.
2007-03-27 14:39:48 · answer #8 · answered by Deu 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I feel like it is used for a person who is trying to hide their personal life. They don't want to be identified as either married or unmarried. It is either because someone is worryed that their marrage status will hold them back (for example, not being hired because you don't want the company knows you are married and assumes you have kids). or else they are ashamed of something in their past (being old and unmarried, being widowed, or being divorced.)
It makes a woman the equilivant of the title Mr. which implies nothing about their socal standing, just gender.
2007-03-27 12:43:15 · answer #9 · answered by lexie 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
It means what it was invented to mean:
A woman of indeterminant marital status.
Good luck
2007-03-27 23:06:21 · answer #10 · answered by Croa 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋