Thursday, December 20, 2007

A brief dictionary of discriminating terms

I was at a dinner party recently with some friends, two of whom recently got married. At one point someone asked him how the "marriage thing" suited him and he responded that she's his hot bitch. To our surprise, and relief, the only person in the room not offended by his remark was she. She says she's happy to be his hot bitch, or sugar mama, or babydoll, but takes issue on the other hand with being his old woman, or ball and chain. You know, this makes sense to me, that even though they all essentially refer to the same thing, they have distinct meanings, and a guy's got to carefully choose the right made up term to express what you mean. On the other hand, if they weren't getting along, he'd have had options to subtly express that.

Another example is a half-Japanese friend of mine who laid out for me a slough of terms to describe her type: hapa, twinkie, crackerjap, wapanese, etc. Descriptors like these break the half-Japanese notion down into discriminating terms that play the nuances of their reference. Derogatory often, sure, but descriptively so. And sometimes you need something with a bit more bite. I think we need more.

Here's a brief visual dictionary of one suggestion along these lines.

Masculine



Muskuline



Maskuline



Missculine



Mesculine



Mosqueuline




I might need to flesh this out a bit more...

1 Comments:

Blogger slc POMP said...

The best one I could think of was the Pope- Mass-culine. Not particularly clever, is it? I've added you to the blogroll at SLCpomp.com.

-Thomas

December 31, 2007 3:39 PM  

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