Gender Balancing

[Husar]

Shoes!

[Secura]

I might add eliminating the use of the term "chicks" might help too.

I've never understood how that term became so widespread; maybe we should start calling you all "blokes" constantly, just to level the playing field? xD

Shoes!

That, my dear Husar, is a thread in it's own right! :P

[Motep]

I've never understood how that term became so widespread; maybe we should start calling you all "blokes" constantly, just to level the playing field? xD



That, my dear Husar, is a thread in it's own right! :P

Huzzah! And before the tenth post, no less.

Bringing those more feminine to the frontroom one day at a time.

Shoes, eh?

[PershsNhpios]

Louis! I am glad that I have been absent so long as to return to a change of signature in your profile.

Your irrelephant pun was the best I have heard in months, and it shall have an audience here in Australia.

Perhaps such warmth of congratulation would transpire in a hearty kiss in your nation, but here my thanks will have to suffice.


I postpone verdict upon the actual subject of this thread until we have heard from SFTS.

[quadalpha]

I've never understood how that term became so widespread

OED:

3. transf.

a. Applied to human offspring; = chicken n.1 2; esp. in alliteration with child. Sometimes as a term of endearment (see quot. a1616).
c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 2159 He is the fendes chike.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 4331 He semeþ ful wel þe deuels chyke, y-sprong of þe pyt of helle.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Bremant, Hee hath nor child nor chicke to care for.
a1616 Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 320 My Ariel; chicke That is thy charge.
1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore i. ii. 81, I haue no wife, I haue no child, haue no chick.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. I5v, And so dresse him up with Love, As to be the Chick of Jove.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise II. iii. 280 He‥had no chick or child to bless his house.


b. A girl; a young woman. slang (orig. U.S.).
1927 S. Lewis Elmer Gantry vii. 114 He didn't want to marry this brainless little fluffy chick.
1957 C. MacInnes City of Spades i. v. 31 There stood‥Muriel's sister. But what a difference from the little chick!
1959 News Chron. 12 Aug. 4/3 Beatniks and their ‘chicks’—palefaced girls wearing pony-tail hair-dos and toreador pants.
1971 It. 12–16 June 16/2 Jackie, always a ‘with-it chick’.

[Beskar]

I've never understood how that term became so widespread; maybe we should start calling you all "blokes" constantly, just to level the playing field? xD

Well, no, it wouldn't level the playing field. But you all call us Cockerels anyway.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I just came from 4chan and I don't understand. There are no girls on the internet.

If we are trying to balance out the genders here can I still make my thread about how awesome this song is: