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Miss or Ms
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Hi! 24 (25 in May) unmarried teacher. Should I be using Miss —— or Ms. ——?
Top Comment: This is less of a grammar question and more of a personal preference question. Pick one; it doesn’t matter - the kids will call you whatever comes their minds first anyway (most of them don’t even know the difference). I’m married and go by “Ms.,” but get “Mrs.” a lot too.
I genuinely miss 2020-2022, anyone else?
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I miss the cleaner air and lack of traffic. I miss when the parks were almost empty. I miss when they closed the annoying shopping malls here. I miss going to work in no traffic. I miss having a place where to park my car and the office park being so serene, quiet and calm. I miss the world being still and quiet. So serene!
I miss wearing masks in winter. I didn't get sick those years at all while I usually get the flue every year.
I miss listening to Elton John and Dua Lipa's colab., BTS or Doja Cat with my then-GF hiding from the authorities in the park when parks were banned for a week or so. BTW When we met we wore masks and they day of revealing our faces to each other felt like a special event. Yes, we really fell for each other before seeing other faces. Heck, I miss how wonderful the barricade tapes looked on stuff everywhere like in park entrances. It looked like modern concept art. I miss the huge deal that the 1st season of our local The Bachelor was back in late 2021 and early 2022.
I also miss the amazing coworkers I had back in 2020. 2021 was a meh year but I remember how we used to go to the grocery's together like a family, we no longer do that. Even 2021 and 2022 music was better than 2024 music. 2023 was the start of decline of new music. 2022 was so-so but 2020 is frankly amazing: Say So, Dynamite, Blinding Lights being huge (released in 2019 but still) & many other catchy songs. Heck, I even miss Greta Thunberg and all the other famous people back then. I even miss Will Smith slapping Chris Rock in 2022 Oscars. I miss the friend I made in 2021 but who started ghosting me in 2022 and I had to block on Fb this year. I miss funny and cringe people online like Oli London causing scandal. :D
It's only looking back that one realizes how good things back then were. Also many good movies came out during that time, sadly many were postponed by the pandemic and are largely forgotten. Also, the cars of 2020-2022 looked so nice. I can't believe it's almost 3 years since 2022 and almost 5 since 2020, that makes me sad! I'll try to collect as many photos, things, music, and whatever from 2000-2022 as possible. Anyone else miss that era?
Top Comment: yeah but i get nostaglic over everything in 2021-2022 there was a very cute pop culture moment going on. almost like we were rebounding from covid Euphoria, Squid Games, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Bieber’s Justice era, Doja Cat, Blackpink/Lisa’s Money, TikTok in it’s prime, there was also this interesting push towards wellness? I remember listening to Ariana Grande’s album positions and hearing the theme of “healing” through out the album. and i remember going to Urban Outfitters and seeing so many shirts with mental health phrases
Miss vs Mrs vs Ms
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I cannot stand being called Mrs. I am not married and I don’t think there is any shame in being unmarried. The shift for society to move towards calling everyone Mrs or Ms is very annoying to me. I also don’t want to be confused as being a married woman - I am not. Calling me a Mrs. does not raise my value and calling me Miss does not lower my value.
All of these are derivatives of Mistress, which is what all women were called (probably of noble decent), and eventually it became these three options.
I feel like Miss is the closest to Mistress that there is and I like Miss, but nobody asked me. I wouldn’t even mind being called Mistress lol
Why do women always have to be the ones to adjust things? Why couldn’t we have added a new title for unmarried men? Or call all women “Miss” or “Mistress”
It’s almost like it’s “embarrassing” or “bad” to be an unmarried woman, a “miss”, so it’s been completely erased. Except for.. there’s nothing bad or wrong with being unmarried.
To me, Mrs is pulling from Mr, with the letter R. It’s pronounced Misses and has no R in the word at all. It’s literally Mr’s or Mister’s Wife. So we bring all women to this status of Mrs, which further brings home that association with a man is the highest level of validation. Completely ridiculous.
If we are all Mrs, to be “politically correct”, then even lesbians are Mrs. now.. ?
Ok that’s my rant. I’d rather be called Miss.
Top Comment: Ms. Sheila Michaels, a feminist who campaigned to popularize the title “Ms.” in the 1960’s as a way for women not to be defined by their relationships with men. so I just use that now.
EMSKR: What do you do when you start to miss her?
Main Post: EMSKR: What do you do when you start to miss her?
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Do you prefer being addressed as "Miss", "Ma'am", or other?
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If you had to pick a form of address from a stranger, which would seem most universally appropriate?
Top Comment: I'd prefer no form of address. People can just say "excuse me" if they need to talk to me. I guess if I have to choose, I'd prefer "miss," but I'm not a fan of either "miss" or "ma'am" because where I'm at, they're both so tied to age, whereas men get to have just one form of address ("sir").
I miss 2022 and can't move on
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I feel so attached to 2022! Everything seemed so good, similar to how many people felt about 2016 or 2019. Even though it wasn't necessarily exciting, things definitely feel tougher this year. I definitely felt luckier back then
Top Comment: I'm glad it was good for you. It was pretty terrible for myself and my family. That said, there may be better things later so don't get locked in the past.
I miss 2019.
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2019 was the best year of my life. I was 18 and that was the year I graduated high school and started college. I was so carefree and kickass. I was reckless (yet responsible) but just felt so young and excited for the world. Now I’m 22 and feel so... drained? I genuinely feel like I’m 35... is this normal? All I pretty much do is work full time. I’m petrified that I’ll wake up in my later years, married and with kids and then just remembering my 20s as me working all the time. I miss the rage and angst I had. I genuinely feel dead inside most days. Does anyone else feel like this?
Edit; didn’t think I had to say this but there’s nothing wrong with being 35 and this post wasn’t a way to shit on 35-year-olds wtf!!
Top Comment: That was also the last year I had a really great year, nothing is the same since Covid.
read this if you miss them
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you do not miss them btw. you miss the version of them you created in your head to which they never lived up to.
Top Comment: Idk man, she was a wonderful human right up until the end. Besides the suddenness of it, she even dumped me in a nice way. I miss a lot more than the idea I created