Please Don’t Call Me Ma’am!

As a younger woman, I find the word offensive, not polite

Erie Astin
Modern Women

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The grocery store clerk called me Ma’am again. So did the male nurse at the clinic, and the guy who drew my blood at the lab.

I’m 37. Do I look like an old lady to you? True, I’m no longer in the first blush of youth, but I’m not middle-aged yet, either.

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Erie Astin
Modern Women

Travel writer. -- Humanist, animal lover, eternal striver. -- From Montana.