Don’t call me ‘babe’ on the bus, please | Jo Walters
When I contacted a bus company after drivers called me ‘babe’, I wasn’t being oversensitive, but saying that language mattersIn the past week I’ve been to the cinema twice (The Artist, and The Descendants – both fairly good), stocked up my fridge (meatballs and pizza on the menu this week) and arranged to catch up with friends. Oh and I’ve been called “an irate woman”, “a daft woman”, a “silly, silly woman” told I “must look like the old back of a bus”, to “Get a life!” and that “I need an operation, to remove the chip from [my] shoulder” – all by people I don’t know and have never met.
published date:Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:30:01 GMT
Don’t call me ‘babe’ on the bus, please | Jo Walters
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Don’t call me ‘babe’ on the bus, please | Jo Walters
When I contacted a bus company after drivers called me ‘babe’, I wasn’t being oversensitive, but saying that language mattersIn the past week I’ve been to the cinema twice (The Artist, and The Descendants – both fairly good), stocked up my fridge (meatballs and pizza on the menu this week) and arranged to catch up with friends. Oh and I’ve been called “an irate woman”, “a daft woman”, a “silly, silly woman” told I “must look like the old back of a bus”, to “Get a life!” and that “I need an operation, to remove the chip from [my] shoulder” – all by people I don’t know and have never met.