Bunnies

I promise you all, this is the last I will speak on this subject.

Today, while three of the four members of the pool were on a lunch outing, the subject of "chicks" came up again. Chicks as in women... Fidget, god bless him, doesn't understand why referring to women as chicks is offensive to me, and thinks I'm being too hard on our dear Mumbles. His theory is that there has to be an underlying reason - whether it be sociological, historical, or whatever - that something is offensive. Merely asserting that the word is offensive is insufficient. So I inquired whether he knew, for instance, why those of us who are not complete bigots would all agree that calling a lesbian "word-that-rhymes-with-bike" is offensive? In other words, where does that word come from, how did it become to be associated with people like me, and how did it come to have such a derogatry meaning? Fidget didn't know, but agreed that that word is nevertheless offensive. So crumbles his theory...

Our conversation ended shortly after it began, thank god, but not before Fidget suggested another word to which we could refer to women. See photo at right.