offended by the term 'Wench'
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offended by the term 'Wench'
Hi,
I have a serious prospect member for our Church. It is a nice lady from Ireland with the right mindset and great looking.
I told her that in our Church, members are referred to as Wenches and Pirates.
She would feel offended by the term 'Wench' and this is holding her from joining. She agrees to join if she can be referred to as a 'Piresse' instead. Would that be acceptable?
Has anyone there been offended by it and how did you overcome it? Personally I think Wenches are really cool.
Would the Prophet (Pesto be upon Him) agree with the term 'Piresse'?
thanks for your advice,
Vinz
I have a serious prospect member for our Church. It is a nice lady from Ireland with the right mindset and great looking.
I told her that in our Church, members are referred to as Wenches and Pirates.
She would feel offended by the term 'Wench' and this is holding her from joining. She agrees to join if she can be referred to as a 'Piresse' instead. Would that be acceptable?
Has anyone there been offended by it and how did you overcome it? Personally I think Wenches are really cool.
Would the Prophet (Pesto be upon Him) agree with the term 'Piresse'?
thanks for your advice,
Vinz
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Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
Hi back at ya!
I'm not offended by the term "wench" but since your friend has a problem with it, I suspect we can call her anything she pleases. Just let her know that usually, we just call each other by our screen names.
Hope that helps.
I'm not offended by the term "wench" but since your friend has a problem with it, I suspect we can call her anything she pleases. Just let her know that usually, we just call each other by our screen names.
Hope that helps.
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Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
To be most accurate, I think members of our Church are referred to as Pastafarians. Pirates are His favored creation, but one doesn't have to be a Pirate to realize that the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
We're happy to call her whatever she would like to be called. As Roy points out, flimsy moral standards leave a lot of wiggle room for things like this.

We're happy to call her whatever she would like to be called. As Roy points out, flimsy moral standards leave a lot of wiggle room for things like this.
daftbeaker wrote:But if I stop bugging you I'll have to go back to arguing with Qwerty about whether beauty is truth and precisely what we both mean by 'purple'
Any statistical increase in the usage of the

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Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
I'm willing to call her a pooface if that helps? 

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Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
Tell her to join! I'm a pirate granny! Too old to be a plausible wench.
Whereabouts in Ireland? My home is in Co. Cork.
…Uh-oh, if she's from Kerry she might not like that.
So if she is, don't tell her, OK?

Whereabouts in Ireland? My home is in Co. Cork.
…Uh-oh, if she's from Kerry she might not like that.

So if she is, don't tell her, OK?

Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
nope tell her she has to be a wench ;) gotta keep them in their place LOL
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Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
www.etymonline.com wrote:wench
late 13c., wenche "girl or young woman," shortened from wenchel "child" (12c.), from O.E. wencel, probably related to wancol "unsteady, fickle, weak," and cognate with O.N. vakr "child, weak person," O.H.G. wanchal "fickle." The word degenerated through being used in ref. to servant girls, and by mid-14c. was being used in a sense of "woman of loose morals, mistress." The verb meaning "to associate with common women" is from 1590s.
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Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
Good King Wenchless would be a good name for her.
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Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
Indeed. And it occurs to me that if that etymology is right, wench is closely related to a very rude word indeed.
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Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
wancol...sounds a bit dodgy...often heard at a Rangers v Celtic match?
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I think you've got it, Bart. 10 Dubloons to your account.
Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
Surely the etymology, no matter how suspect, isn't what makes it offensive but rather the common use and intent? I can't recall the last time I heard someone denigrating women by calling them wenches.
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Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
Or on the flip side, the etymology of the gay bashing F-word isn't particularly offensive, and in England they still use it to refer to cigarettes.
It's never the word itself, it's how it's used. Which is why the idea of auto-censoring certain words seems silly to me, but that's a whole other topic...
It's never the word itself, it's how it's used. Which is why the idea of auto-censoring certain words seems silly to me, but that's a whole other topic...
daftbeaker wrote:But if I stop bugging you I'll have to go back to arguing with Qwerty about whether beauty is truth and precisely what we both mean by 'purple'
Any statistical increase in the usage of the

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Exactly! Ha, I actually had to look that up on the wikipedias, 'cause I was like "what's so bad about scunt?" 

daftbeaker wrote:But if I stop bugging you I'll have to go back to arguing with Qwerty about whether beauty is truth and precisely what we both mean by 'purple'
Any statistical increase in the usage of the

Re: offended by the term 'Wench'
So 'Piresse' as an alternative would not be acceptable, since it is not mentioned in Scipture, right?
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