Remember when a speech would begin with "Ladies and Gentlemen ..." Where did the ladies go? And the gentlemen, where did they go?
Gentlemen? They were the kind of man that stood to give a lady their seat. Gentlemen seated their lady at a restaurant. Gentlemen ordered the meal. Gentlemen opened the door for a lady. Gentlemen held her arm as they walked ... and he would walk on the curb side. A civil time. That was the lady and gentlemen era.
Where the ladies and gentlemen went is no real mystery.
Woman's liberation 60's thru 80's. quietly changed the lady to a woman and changed the gentleman back to a man!
Woman and man!
Woman's Liberation was the big gender blender blunder! No more ladies, no more gentlemen.
We're all equal. Unisex flourishes.
Women boldly going where no woman had gone before permeating the very sanctuaries of testosterone as well as reversing or minimizing man's roll in society.. Estrogen vs. testosterone!
"Move over man, I'm sitting there now!" ... the tough broad smiles," want to make something of it mister man?"
Open a door for a woman now and she looks puzzled. Try and seat a woman now and you get a dirty look!
Alas, the lady and gentlemen are two endangered species.
Indeed there are millions of women, and millions of broads too ... but has anyone seen a lady of virtue around?
