Good Morning All, Has anyone else ever wondered why the newsreaders quite often refer to a man who is involved in some type of criminal offense as a "gentleman" while a woman in the same situation is a woman and never referred to as a lady?
I would say that they definitely are NOT gentlemen.
I've never heard anyone like that referred to as a gentleman. I have noticed that they often refer to 17 or 18 year old males as "men", but females of a similar age are "girls". I'm not sure why.
My Granny was in service to some very posh, titled families in her youth. She always said that real toffs never called a female a "lady", the correct term is "woman". It was only the middle class snobs that used "lady".
Today I got charged for 3 counts of ABH. It was incident that occured just after xmas, in which 3 gentleman started abusing a friend for his hair colour, basically calling him ginger and so forth. My...
Just to show what I am talking about............copied from AB