Lady-friend. that's a term I heard for the first time about a year ago. I'm not sure but recently it seems like I have heard it more and more. At first I thought it was a sly way of saying, I'm hooking up with this girl but she is not my girlfriend. I thought calling someone your
"lady" sounded kinda pimpy, in a lady's man, 70's Shaft kinda way. I was clearly never that smooth. Some days I watch Diane sleeping, and I say to myself, the fact that she fell in love with me, and married me, is proof of miracles.
But, I digress, so the year went on and I heard and I read the term in blogs, it the showed up in more and more places. Last fall I read on Molly's blog about Tom (papa smurf) and his "lady- friend", who was Amy (ffa),which if you know our group, know is pretty damn funny.
I've heard rob (ntntamfmb20) use the term, but then again Rob is generally smooth like butter. He clearly says it with more reverence, as in, "I'm going to see my lady-friend tonight." Maybe the term isn't a smooth pimp way of saying friends with benefits, but truly an evolution resulting from the feminist movement. Maybe women started the term. Maybe 20 and 30 something women got tired of being call some one's "girl friend". Maybe it's just someone trying to sound superbad. Luckily for me, my terminology is easy: "wife", as in been with since I was 19, I had enough trouble with "fiancee" ... thank god I'm happily married.
Last night did a little tour of R-house with Rob (ntntamfmb20). Trials were frozen, and in most sections smooth with snow. Still the trail was very rough, lots of debris, and sandy sections from the recent flooding. I should have thought of that, so after one pass, and passing Ted Logic going the other direction, I thought the best of it, and headed out on the road. I did a little tour of Newark, which was fun.
In the final mile riding towards my car on the sidewalk I hear someone yell. "hey! hey you!!!" I think to myself, "great, Americans love their cyclists, I about to catch a raft of shit for something..." The stranger continued, "hey, you better not be rutting up the sidewalk!" I was shocked, I whipped my head around and laughed out loud, as I realized it wasn't a stranger yelling at me, but Mark the Shark, abuser of men, and maestro of the PWC. That was good for a grin all the way back to the car.
No trails, or sidewalks were rutted during the composition of this blog entry.
respect.
fm
still a bad, bad man.
6 comments:
I removed the earlier comment because I mispelled something.
Was Mark the Shark with his ladyfriend last night?
lady-friend - goes back to women's lib...
ala 60s and sh!t... when the 'women' didn't want to be called "girlfriends"
ya must be rooted deep in the Mid Atlantic cause all dem west coast hippie folks have been carrying the term pretty steady since then...
What else should I call my 74 year old Dad's dates?
I always thought the term was becoming more popular since as we all get older. I mean we aren't girls are we? We are women. Of course, I'm no "lady". hmmm. "Woman friend"? That makes us sound fat. So I guess lady friend works. roommate? hmmm, I think elk just calls me sam.
My 93 year old grandfather refers to his lady friend as "what's her name?"
Lady friend...
Interestingly, my 81 year old father, my 15 year old brother, and I all tend to refer to our girlfriends at various points as "lady friends."
I'm pretty sure in each context, the term takes on a different signification.
I like lady friend because girlfriend sounds too juvenile, partner too sterile, lover too suggestive.
At this point, I'd settle for anything though...
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