Obviously you weren't brought up properly...
or you would know that 'she' is the cat's mother. If you are talking about someone, it is polite to use their name. Simple, basic manners.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Wed 28 Nov 2012, 0:15, 1 reply)

I'm always saying that the biggest problem with this place is the lack of simple, basic manners
especially when they are based on archaic, gender-specific nonsense that no-one's said since the 1950s.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 28 Nov 2012, 8:45, closed)

You mean expecting someone to refer to me by my name rather than my gender
is archaic?
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Wed 28 Nov 2012, 17:48, closed)

Well, yes, it was generally considered polite to refer to a woman by name, rather than as "she", if said woman happened to be physically present. Perhaps it still is. Whether or not Wicca'd Witch (presumably a nom de plume, in any case) can be regarded as 'physically present' on a messageboard may be open to some debate.

Nevertheless, to extrapolate from the casual (and possibly mildly impolite) usage of "she" that a man is a "misogynistic prick with mummy issues" who has deliberately and maliciously "reduced [Wicca'd Witch] to a gender" is perhaps overstating the case a little bit. In fact, Happy Phantom would go so far as to assert that it's the kind of grandiose tubthumping uberfeminism that would have had Andrea Dworkin donning a false beard and a strap-on out of contact embarrassment.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Wed 28 Nov 2012, 19:34, closed)

I tend to find that most men who feel the need to reduce a woman to an adjective and a gender tend to have some issues.
Maybe he isn't a misogynist. Maybe he doesn't have mummy issues...but he's definitely a prick.

(And no, Andrea Dworkin would probably have come down firmly on my side for that, I'm afraid - especially given EMV's previous comments. If you think otherwise, then you know very very little about Andrea Dworkin)
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Wed 28 Nov 2012, 22:30, closed)

Aw, don't spoil it by being reasonable
Having just spent three years working at an almost-entirely female-staffed medical charity, providing better maternity clinics in the developing world and campaigning against FGM, I was quite enjoying your homespun third-person pronoun feminist rant. By all means, call me a misogynist if it makes you feel better to imagine that I have "issues when it comes to people who own a vagina" based on my sentence construction.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 29 Nov 2012, 8:13, closed)