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On being PC in a contrarian fashion
Jun. 3rd, 2006 02:07 amI propose that rather than calling all women Ms. (Miz) and losing the information about their marital status, we should instead also begin to use different titles for men that indicate their marital status as well.
Master is a term "used as a courtesy title before the given or full name of a boy not considered old enough to be addressed as Mister", (Three quarks for Master Mark!) so I suggest that we use that to refer to young unmarried males, perhaps abbreviated as Mas. if there's no established way to abbreviate it. I'm not sure what we should call married men, but the first term that comes to mind is Old Man, which could be abbreviated as Old.
Master is a term "used as a courtesy title before the given or full name of a boy not considered old enough to be addressed as Mister", (Three quarks for Master Mark!) so I suggest that we use that to refer to young unmarried males, perhaps abbreviated as Mas. if there's no established way to abbreviate it. I'm not sure what we should call married men, but the first term that comes to mind is Old Man, which could be abbreviated as Old.
