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15 Feb 2009, 1:07 pm

This is a chick:

This is not:

Now can we stop calling women and girls 'chicks' please :roll:

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15 Feb 2009, 1:30 pm

Cheep chick topic

Greyhound, that offensive term has been around for a while. I never use it, but it is popular with teen boys, who no doubt have pasted the bottom photo into their pictures folder.

My youngest daughter thinks the apt term for the bottom photo is "sl*t", not chick.

The fluffy yellow baby fowl is so adorable.

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15 Feb 2009, 2:36 pm

they both look yummy

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15 Feb 2009, 3:07 pm

Greyhound wrote:

Now can we stop calling women and girls 'chicks' please :roll:

No, sorry. I've been saying it too long to stop now. Girls are still "chicks" to me. At least I don't call them "b*****s" as is common in the ghetto.

Edit: ...and for the record, the only real "b***h" I know is my female Pit Bull! :lol:

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15 Feb 2009, 3:19 pm

Yeah, "chick(s)" are fare too deep in our lexicon that it would take an act of congress to get it dug out.

I can think of worse things to be called. Besides, what's wrong with chick? It's like chic only with a k.

Not all guys are dudes. We don't care. We're all dudes as far as we're concerned.

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15 Feb 2009, 5:08 pm

digger1 wrote:

Not all guys are dudes. We don't care. We're all dudes as far as we're concerned.

I hate the word 'dude' as well.

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15 Feb 2009, 6:30 pm

I disagree with your definition of a chick.

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15 Feb 2009, 7:44 pm

This raises the question of why we call girls "chicks" at all. Etymonline gives

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c.1320, abbreviation of chicken (q.v.), extended to human offspring (often in alliterative pairing chick and child) and used as a term of endearment. As slang for "young woman" it is first recorded 1927 (in "Elmer Gantry"), supposedly from U.S. black slang, in British use by c.1940, popularized by Beatniks late 1950s. Chicken in this sense is from 1711."

Which really doesn't give too much elucidation, aside from maybe that it comes from the "term of endearment" usage.

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15 Feb 2009, 8:05 pm

if you can get women to stop saying it, I'm game...

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15 Feb 2009, 10:05 pm

Another guilty "chick" user here. Wait, that sounded bad........ :wink:

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15 Feb 2009, 10:14 pm

jawbrodt wrote:

Another guilty "chick" user here. Wait, that sounded bad........

Eh, we're male, I think we're all guilty of having "used" at least one.

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15 Feb 2009, 10:17 pm

Ah yes, now I remember that one night, at closing time....... :twisted: :lol:

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15 Feb 2009, 10:22 pm

jawbrodt wrote:

Ah yes, now I remember that one night, at closing time....... :twisted:

Yes... ?

I don't know how I went from "no social skills" to gigolo overnight when I was 20, but somehow I did. There was this one really cute "chick" I met online, she drove over 100 miles to see me on a snowy New Years Eve, I took her to a college football bowl game (I had free tickets thanks to my employer), I bought her dinner at a Chinese buffet (cheap lol), and then somehow convinced HER to pay $80 for the hotel room that night.

I have never again, since that night, had that kind of luck. But what I wouldn't give to live that day and night all over again.

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