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Chicks
I see that the Dixie Chicks have officially changed their band name to The Chicks.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I think it’s as stupid and cowardly as most “woke” nonsense.
On the other hand, if it means that calling girls “chicks” is back in fashion, I’m totally down with that. Perhaps, if we’re lucky, “birds” and “dames” will make a comeback as well.
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The politically correct term is “persons of gender”.
Children can be so cruel.
Maybe they’re National League fans.
Shouldn’t they be “cancelled” just for calling themselves Chicks?
Inconsistency is an important part of inducing terror.
Nope. “Skirts” is another one.
How about “Three Angry Faux-Southern Harpies”?
No one said they were rocket scientists . . .
Are Harpies the same as Valkyries?
Ted Nugent used to be in a group “Damn Yankees” . . .
Naw. Valkyries scour the battlefiend collecting the heroic dead and taking them to Valhalla, the Hall of the Slain.
Harpies are hideos monsters who torture people, mainly by virtue signaling and putting out albums . . .
We all know what Damn Yankees are.
No.
You guys can call me a girl anytime!
Has she considered changing her name to “Chicks”?
Way back when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, I quickly deduced what was a “bad word” by observing the words used by my two older sisters. If they used a word and didn’t get in trouble for it, then I knew it wasn’t a “bad word”.
Long story short: My sisters called other women “chicks”, and that’s how I learned about double-standards.
Are you sure that is still an acceptable assessment?
(HINT: The Night They Drove Old…)
Dames should be acceptable, since it’s merely an Anglicized version of the French word for lady.
Chick should also be acceptable, since it’s merely an Anglicized version of the Spanish word for girl.
Birds, as well as other infamous words that analogize women as animals, are etymologically more problematic.
They’re not even members of the same mythological pantheon!
Somebody really needs to reread the Monster Manual.
The Amboy Dukes were way better.
Sexualized Persons.
Even that pillar of leftist radicalism Joan Baez did that one.
Then she must be made an unperson too.
There was a mini-surge of sympathy for the Confederacy among the 1960s anti-Vietnam Left, because anything that opposed the Federal Government couldn’t be all bad. After all, love it or hate it, the Confederacy never invaded foreign countries, or so went the reasoning. In the song, the “they” who drove old Dixie down are the same “they” who dropped napalm on Vietnamese villagers.
e.g. George Carlin mentioned sympathy for the South in his comedy routines of the era. “I consider the South just another minority that was screwed by the US goverment. I have no prejudice against them. They got it too.”
It was simply a different manifestation of the same impulse that drives today’s Left to sympathize with Jihad.
I believe you’ll find that Pennsylvania is not within the bounds of the Confederacy, even by the broadest definitions of being below the Mason-Dixon Line.
Not long ago someone mentioned that they did involuntary strip a large number of Americans of their US citizenship.
Invading the hated Yankee Empire doesn’t count.
And that has always remained, for me, the essential justification for the war to restore the nation. The southern states had no more right to deprive Americans of their citizenship than would the BLM and Antifa thugs of CHAZ to deprive a few thousand Seattlites of theirs.