What is a Lady? 09 23 2020

 What is a Lady? 09 23 2020

 It is even a formal title in Great Britain.  But I take issue with the definition.

 Dictionary Definition:

"a woman who is refined, polite, and well-spoken: She may be poor and have little education, but she's a real lady. a woman of high social position or economic class: She was born a lady and found it hard to adjust to her reduced circumstances."

 

Wikipedia definition:

"The word lady is a term of respect for a girl or woman, the equivalent of gentleman. Once used to describe only women of a high social class or status, the female equivalent of lord, now it may refer to any adult woman. ... "Lady" is also a formal title in the United Kingdom."

 

 

I would believe that there are likely poor women out there who classify as being more of a lady than someone awarded the title.

     

Two character traits I believe disqualify a woman from being a lady are:

 

1.  A woman who drinks alcohol?  Why not?  That crassness which is that true womans natural bad personality comes right out.  And that isn't a lady.  A lady is self respecting; and alcohol is destrimental to her health.  It also causes babies to be born with mental retardation.  And that is something a lady would never do.

 

2.  I don't believe a lesbian can ever be classified as a lady.  No matter how much more she overtly acts like a lady. No matter if she has high etiquette and likes to have tea with her special one. It has to what the act entails; is not lady lake. 

I also believe that woman have been given an awful role model of success in our nation.  As if being the most cutthroat woman in business somehow elevates you to the class of lady?  No, The woman who neglects her own children, has someone else raise them, that isn't a lady either.

 

So indeed your modern day flapper girl who talks like she is at a speak easy and is always stoned out of  her mind on beer or sour mash is not a lady.

A lady doesn't get tattoed or nose piercings either.

And this isn't one of those issues whereby whatever a certain percentage of our population is most lady like that is what the standard of lady will be.  NO.  If there are no ladies there are no ladies!

Is Olde Frothingslosh a lady?  Sorry,  She doesn't qualify for many reasons.  Olde Frothingslosh, is a trademark of someone else, likely..in effect or not?  Who knows.

Perhaps one element of class that a lady has is that she has her own mind.  She isn't trying to plow jocky her way through life on false presumptions.  She is happy with her own personal strength and will.  She makes decisions based on inteligence rather hot potato round robbin gossip thinking.

 

And so you are a woman of the above.  Just telling you what you are not.  Don't take it to heart. 

And a lady has good genes, she doesn't have a dented watermelon sized head.

 

© 2020 Thomas Murphy