Star Dreamer, to explain the different connotations of 'lady' and 'woman'. 'Lady' is twee because its use implies you think there is something low status about a plain 'woman'.
Similarly with calling every honest man a 'gentleman'. There is nothing wrong with a man or calling him a man, If you want to be sarcastic by all means call him a 'gentleman'.
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Hello!
(No, don’t worry, it’s not about toilets.)
What do you think about being called a lady?
I’ve found myself using the plural on a few occasions on here;
and I always slightly feel as if I should apologise, or ask permission.
In fact, in the past, I have done the latter.
As a young 80’s feminist, I used to really dislike the word; and I would berate my poor mother for using the word (what a flipping sanctimonious child I was!)
But now, I don’t mind lady at all, in fact I like it. Perhaps we should reclaim it…
So what do you think? Yay or nay?
(Now would be a fantastic time for the Mumsnet voting buttons - forget a like button, we need those bad boys)
Thank you 
Wow ! I never thought at the beginning of this, what I call a lighthearted thread, that I would see deleted posts ! I saw the posts in question and I'm at a loss as to why - or am I missing something ? 
Thank you.
No, not an unreasonable question, although I see 'lady' and 'gentleman' as being more about status and manners than good or evil. You could push someone off a cliff wearing white gloves or shoot them with your monogrammed pistol, engraved with the family coat of arms 
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Can anyone explain what was deleted (in suitably vague terms to comply with the suitably vague 'rules'), please?
(If not, feel free to use the PM function 
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TIA.
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