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Originally Posted by JRutledge
Now you learned something. When you say "living up to a certain standard," that standard is seen as subservient.
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This is simply false. When it originated in British society, "Lady" was a term of
privilege, not servitude. Ladies
employed servants, they weren't servants. Yes, women in general were held in lower regard than men, but that doesn't have anything to do with the term "lady".
Later on, even in American culture, "lady" did not connote servitude. It connoted "proper" (meaning, among other things,
sexually proper) behavior. A lady didn't wear pants, for example, or sit astride a horse. It didn't have anything to do with demeaning somebody.
There is simply no case that I have ever heard for construing "lady" as connoting subservience.
Now you have learned something. Maybe. And since this has NOTHING to do with basketball, I will withdraw from the topic.