The P-Word, what's the problem?

[Tsippy]

Why do women get so pissed off when they're called 'Poppet'? It's almost like a trigger word to send them into a banshee like rage

[anonymous-user]

Especially if you pat them on the head when you say it.

[Festive Ferg]

I think it may be the sudden realisation that they are talking to a bell-end that might be the trigger...

[pete a]

Because even they understand this belongs in the lounge...

[Tsippy]

I am not so sure, it looks at what offends the opposite sex and so could be classified as political due to the rise of sexual equality etc

[ShadownINja]

I will remember to call a female Labour candidate "poppet" next time she knocks on my door canvassing.

[BOR]

What kind of insecure little virgin would use an expression like that ?

[madala]

Tsippy said:

Why do women get so pissed off when they're called 'Poppet'? It's almost like a trigger word to send them into a banshee like rage

....becuase it's patronising....ask Soovey....it's his favourite female put down and if I were a woman it would piss me off big time.

edited "of" typo....

Edited by madala on Sunday 2nd January 10:13

[Rocksteadyeddie]

No idea love.

[slipstream 1985]

"ohhhh i see.... its that time of the month ok". usually get a swift slapping reaction from that one..

[colonel c]

Tsippy said:

like a trigger word to send them into a banshee like rage

Hair trigger most of em.

[Somewhatfoolish]

I've never actually called a woman poppet. Should I go for my grandmother or my "feminazi" (as PHers would see her) exexex?

Edit: Will film reaction

Edited by Somewhatfoolish on Sunday 2nd January 00:24

[Pferdestarke]

A female colleague lost it with our Midlands ASM when he called her 'flower'. Bit of an overreaction if you ask me.

[Pesty]

Pferdestarke said:

A female colleague lost it with our Midlands ASM when he called her 'flower'. Bit of an overreaction if you ask me.

A female worker in the midlands went mental with me and reported me to HR because I used the word 'love'

I'm from Yorksire

A guy from stoke said 'duck' a few days laters and it had the same effect.

Although, aparently it was ok for her to call everyone 'bab' its almost as if she was looking for a reasong to be offended probably to use as an excuse for her next six months off with stress.

Edited by Pesty on Sunday 2nd January 00:36

[Pferdestarke]

Pesty said:

Pferdestarke said:

A female colleague lost it with our Midlands ASM when he called her 'flower'. Bit of an overreaction if you ask me.

A female worker in the midlands went mental with me and reported me to HR because I used the word 'love'

I'm from Yorksire

A guy from stoke said 'duck' a few days laters and it had the same effect.

Although, aparently it was ok for her to call everyone 'bab' its almost as if she was looking for a reasong to be offended probably to use as an excuse for her next six months off with stress.

Edited by Pesty on Sunday 2nd January 00:36

Did she sign off from phone calls by saying 'tarrar-a-bit'?

She sounds hideous!

[Pesty]

She was, and then some.

that place nearly drove me bonkers. Just one of many ridiculas times I was reported to HR.

The place was full of mental old bags

[Tsippy]

I bet she used the words "R Chick" too, didn't she?

[Sticks.]

Tsippy said:

Why do women get so pissed off when they're called 'Poppet'? It's almost like a trigger word to send them into a banshee like rage

If they're familiar with the original meaning, that'll do it (from Wiki)

"In folk-magic and witchcraft, a poppet is a doll made to represent a person, for casting spells on that person. These dolls may be fashioned from such materials as a carved root, grain or corn shafts, a fruit, paper, wax, a potato, clay, branches, or cloth stuffed with herbs. The intention is that whatever actions are performed upon the effigy will be transferred to the subject based in sympathetic magic. It was from these European dolls that the myth of Voodoo dolls arose. Poppets are also used as kitchen witch figures."

[pacman1]

[walks in] Sorry, I was looking for NP&E. [walks out]

[snowy slopes]

Sticks. said:

Tsippy said:

Why do women get so pissed off when they're called 'Poppet'? It's almost like a trigger word to send them into a banshee like rage

Poppets are also used as kitchen witch figures.

So THATS why she gets really pissed off when i call her that in the kitchen