Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Keeping Up with the Times


I just learned yesterday that the term, "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen," as a way to welcome an audience, is now considered to be both insulting and politically incorrect since it is "exclusionary," leaving out those who identify as both or possibly neither, or as pandas, wombats, zombies or kitty-cats, or maybe plants or trees, a planet or a dead Hollywood star like Gloria Swanson, Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, River Phoenix and/or Mae West, to name but a few. So keep that in mind the next time you are addressing a large group.

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2 comments:

  1. MitchMay 21, 2019 at 6:43 PM

    Wouldn’t ladies and germs still work?

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  2. Deb SweeneyJune 11, 2019 at 12:27 PM

    Good evening large group of people...then that will become insulting probably.

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