[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Question from the wife (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 1/29/2005 3:21:32 PM EDT
She is all uptight about me using the common and accepted terminology of electricians and plumbers. She thinks refering to the male end and female end of a fitting or electrical plug is "sexual"?  We were married 8 or 9 years before she said anything, and now when I use one of those terms, she  and  thinks I am doing it for her 'benefit'. I have never heard anyone use another term to describe it. She says 'why don't you post the question on AR15? I bet most everyone elses wives think it is just a guys way of continually using sexual connotations' So here it is guy and gals. What do you think? Do you use the aformentioned terms? Does your wife think it is a sexual term? What say you? 
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The male end goes into the female receiving end. That's the way it's always been. How else are you going to describe such a basic concept? Plumbers and electricians have been using those terms since the jobs were invented. Heck, take her to a hardware store. If the items aren't labeled as such, you can ask a clerk for them by male/female and get what you want. She's just being daffy. 
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Ask her why she is so PC… Why is she so insecure? And why should the English language be mangled because of her insecurities? The term male and female have been in use with electricians and plumbers from the beginning BECAUSE they are perfect descriptions of the devices in questions. |
that is exactly what I told her... 
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when she was asking me to post the question, she said that of course 'men' came up with the nomeclature. If women would have come up with other names for them they would have been the thingamabob into the thingamajigger! 
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She definatly knows her way around the kitchen
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and cooks exceptionally
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It's just a common way to assign a recognizable term to something that works in a similar manner. If a person spent enough time they could apply a sexual conitation to everything. Your wife obviously thinks more into it than she needs to, also women tend to over dramatize anything that is at first unfamilar and in her mind slightly sexual. Using male and female is a male way of simplifing something they deal with in a routine manner. A women who doesn't spend hours of her day using it would say "I need some plumbing tubing with the threaded ends that "screw" I mean "insert" I mean "connect" into the other big ends that are on the end of the plumbing tubing". A man would say, "I need some PVC with male and female ends". - See it's sooooo simple!!! |
BWAHAHAHAHA ... never thought of that RodeoFan, will have to ask her......she just and laughed.
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I'm an electrician........ And that's clearly one of the SILLIEST analogies I have EVER heard... Tell her go look in a parts catalog, or even online for male/female cord caps, then see what she says... Some women just live to find weird ass reasons for stuff that just AINT there....... But you know........... It MUST be a conspiracy ! Cause we're MEN, after all ! |
I have shown her many times that it is refered to as such even in walmart, home depot, hardware store, etc. She just loves to give me a hard time about it. |
| Ask her how she would describe some of these things over the phone to someone who is NOT an electrician or a plumber. Especially if it were an emergency and people are in a hurry. Because they are basic concepts, anyone older than 10 years old will instantly understand - that's why these terms are so widely used, not because of some juvenile inside joke. |
Hmmm - that might be a trap. I'm not sure you should tell her that at all. 
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I think she just needs to be a little more comfortable with her own sexuality. They're teaching this a lot younger these days. Just this week my preschooler came home explaining that he has a pee pee and Mrs. Rietman [preschool teacher - mid 70's] has a "Ba Gine Ah." Male and Female seams rather tame after that!
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OMG!!! our daughter is 4 and I would up in someones sh*t if she came home from preschool saying that. I am sorry that happend to you.  Kids have a long time to learn all of that stuff. They just need to be kids for a while.
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Hehe the red ones are the bigger than the blond ones, right? I was working with a guy who told me to "shave a cvnt hair off this", while the homeowner lady was in the room. We all just stood there for a second, then I walked out. Nobody mentioned it again! |
Well it was diffinately a surprised. I would have rather NOT have learned it for two reasons. One you gave and 2 he's been saying it none stop every since. I'm really looking forward to church tomorrow.
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Tell your wife that sexual terminology isn't that prominent because when a woman is piloting a plane, we don't say she sitting in the "vaginapit". Its a good thing she doesn't build scaffolding. Those pieces of tubing that connect the legs together are referred to as "donkey dicks". |
Oh yeah. Sunday school oughta be fun? [yourson] do you have a pee pee, or a bah-ghin-ah?[/yourson]
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IIRC red < blonde. I usually just use 'RCH" as a unit of measurement when in mixed company. Generally it goes right by without comment, though I have gotten the  from a female friend....who happens to be a redhead
And mentioning the Brit "hermaphrodite" tanks (machine guns on one side, cannon on the other) would really confuse things  |
Okay, this is off topic - but you started it. When my nephew was young (4 or 5) we were in an elevator full of people. When it stopped rather abruptly he said "Oooh! That tickles my penis." There is no place to hide in an elevator. |
