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why do women feel insulted when being referred to in this way?
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I clicked the 'Submit' button too soon above! The reason why women felt insulted was that it was felt to be a mark of disrespect in the days when it tended to be used. A man would have been insulted, too, to have been referred to by a child/young person as simply 'he' in his own presence. However, the phrase never seems to have had a variation on masculine lines.
One rarely hears it nowadays because very few people seem to have respect for anyone now, so signs of that respect are just not expected.
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