> As is the team’s “Food Wench”
:facepalm:
don’t get all up in arms
Excellent. It's just marketing by using words that would otherwise be pejorative.
:facepalm:
don’t get all up in arms
Excellent. It's just marketing by using words that would otherwise be pejorative.
It's not the most fortunate choice of title, but given that they're trying to create a pirate context - I'm not sure it's worth getting too upset about.
(And please, before somebody wants to throw sexism accusations my way, do check my posting history :)
Edit: I stand corrected. If urbandictionary is your source of what language means, it is pejorative. Interesting. I wonder if Vanessa was even aware of that.
I've linked elsewhere: First defn from first hit on google: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wench
wench (wnch)
n.
1. A young woman or girl, especially a peasant girl.
2. A woman servant.
3. A wanton woman.
intr.v. wenched, wench·ing, wench·es
To consort or engage in sex with wanton women. Used of a man.
and http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wench: a lewd woman : prostitute
Wench = OK, get funded.
Dongle = Problem, lose job.
And remember, not every reference to gender is automatically sexist. "Wench" is a word which is completely archaic in the modern world and almost never used in any context other than some reference to pirates / medieval times. To me, it seems like quite a stretch to try and paint this as sexism.
But I'm a guy, so what do I know?
Let's not whitewash, that's only half right: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wench