Should the titles of Mr & Mrs be scrapped?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....tml?ito=feeds-newsxml

Once again it seems that some wish to remove the words Mr & Mrs from official forms and paperwork in case they offend the transgender community.

[jackthehat]

<<But then since I have not got a Masters Degree in Indian/Asian names along with the majority of other ABers, it should come as no surprise to anyone other than yourself, that I was ignorant of those facts. >>

Neither have I, AOG.
But I make it my business to be more certain of my facts before opening my mouth and putting my feet in it than you seem to be capable of doing.

[friedgreentomato]

We don't need titles - my mother in law insists on writing on letters Mrs James ****** rather than my own name - when questioned apparently I should be proud to be Mrs James etc.

when i tell her I am a person in my own right I get glared at and told that is ridiculous!

[woofgang]

FGT Thats the formal title that I choose to use......I agree i though I would not want to have it foisted on me.

[DTCwordfan]

Helen, you could always change your name by deed-poll and include the name "Battleaxe" before your name, that would piss her off royally.

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

/// But I make it my business to be more certain of my facts before opening my mouth and putting my feet in it than you seem to be capable of doi ///

Now why is that not usual a person who never makes mistakes and researches every topic before making a comment.

But then that is not all that hard to do when one doesn't usually enter a question, but only sits on the side lines like a carrion crow ready to pick the bones of others.

107 Questions asked in almost six years = 1.5 Questions a month.

BUT----------- a whole 20,136 answers, I rest my case.

[anotheoldgit]

friedgreentomato

/// when i tell her I am a person in my own right I get glared at and told that is ridiculous! ///

Do you insist on holding on to your 'Maiden' name also?

Or is 'Maiden' also a no, no in this enlightened age, that we now find ourselves in?

[friedgreentomato]

//Do you insist on holding on to your 'Maiden' name also?//

I have kept things in my maiden name because I choose too, I married a man I love not his name, I should still be recognised in my own right as my own person.

[emmie]

i have always thought it odd that when you marry you adopted his name, what a daft idea.

[emmie]

i read about this a few weeks ago..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16503341

[anotheoldgit]

It's going to get even more confusing, given the amount of children born these days to single women, but all who have different Fathers.

[friedgreentomato]

perhaps you can do as you did in the olden days and call children born to unmarried mothers Fitz........

What you mean that it was not all milk and honey prior to 1990!!!!!

[Brenden]

Think it was the royals who name their illegtimate children Fitzsimmons etc., FGT,

[friedgreentomato]

Still unmarried though, the OP seems to think it is a modern invention to have unmarried mothers - it was quite common back in the 'olden days'!!

[anotheoldgit]

/// the move comes as feminist groups campaign for the word to be consigned to the dustbin of history everywhere. ///

Wow! em, it's worse than I first thought.

The question I now must ask is, when are the 'majority' groups going to demand a say in things?

I will start it off, I demand that public conveniences should now be labelled Gents, Ladies and Others.

That could of course catch on with the Others, seeing that they are always demanding that they should be recognised in their own right.

[emmie]

but which one do i use?

[anotheoldgit]

Em10

Well since according to your profile, you have chosen to put your gender down as Female, I thought it would Ladies, Female, Women, Hers, Hens (now don't go there) or what other female identification, the particular establishment chose to put on the door.

[sp1814]

AOG

That could of course catch on with the Others, seeing that they are always demanding that they should be recognised in their own right.

Not quite right, and offhandedly offensive (although I don't think it's deliberate on your part).

Trans people do not want to be treated as 'other'. They want to be treated as men or women...not 'other' at all. Transgender people transit (trans) from one gender to another - they do not transit from one to some other sex.

What 'other' signifies is 'intersex', is which something else again.

[emmie]

what if you are a Hermaphrodite?

[Brenden]

I once worked with a young guy who called himself Tracy, he wore blouse and skirt one day, trousers and shirt another, had not had any procedures to alter his sex but was allowede to use the ladies toilets - PC gone mad.

[emmie]

i worked with a guy who was quite a manly man if you know what i mean, then one day out of the blue he showed up for work, asked to be called Jennifer, or something like it. I had every sympathy, however his clothes sense left a lot to be desired, as to the wig, it should have stayed on Red Rum