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Birds - offensive?
BillieTheBot
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Last night, I was listening to one of these Irish talk shows on the radio. You know the ones - hysterical people phone in the station and shout, I mean, talk to one another in a "discussion" guided by a deranged host. You've all probably come across one on radio before.
Anyway, the topic of discussion was "is it offensive to refer to a woman as a bird?". Is it offensive to refer to women in this way, or is it harmless fun? What do you make of it?
Personally... I just say I wouldn't choose to call a woman a "bird".
Anyway, the topic of discussion was "is it offensive to refer to a woman as a bird?". Is it offensive to refer to women in this way, or is it harmless fun? What do you make of it?
Personally... I just say I wouldn't choose to call a woman a "bird".
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I don't like the "bird-brain" connotations though.
I've not heard the term birds for awhile but I don't think it's particularly offensive.
If you're talking with a friend about, say a common mate and you ask "is he still seeing that bird from Sheffield?", I don't see anything wrong with it.
Referring to women directly as 'birds' or asking somebody 'how's your bird'?' is different in my view.
Now if it were, hey whats up you nasty disease ridden slutty greasy whorebag, by some random person, that would be a different story.
around here you get called a duck and allsorts so it's fine with me.
Mr. Roll deserves a big round of applause here *claps*
a lady-bird that i can consume :flirt:
Wow.
Yeah...what's ironic about it
It's just a casual term for women like 'dude' for guys, plenty of people use it. 'Woman' is too formal and 'girl' sounds odd talking about people over a certain age. Other slang terms are either american (chick) or considered offensive (bitch). So 'bird' is the natural colloquialism to use.
What's the difference? It's either interchangable with 'girl' or 'woman' generally or it isn't. I really can't see why using it in the presence of a "common" person (a far more derogatory term) would be justified whereas saying "look at those birds over there" isn't
not because i think it's derogatory or anything, it's just cheesy imo.
i wouldn't mind it from a girl but if a lad called me it i'd be a bit like.... :wave:
what do mort/malt and rakli mean? i guess they must be regional dialect and am guessing they mean along the lines of someone being female.
Cacker talk. Mush.
Bird=Pet=Owned and i dont like to think to my-self that i am "owned"