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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Owner of housecleaning company here. Really don't like the term maid and it is usually indicative of the type of customer we're dealing with. I would wager that many companies use the word "maid" out of familiarity. BUT, calling someone a maid versus a company using the word in their name is different, IMO.[/quote]Ok. But you still haven't articulated why the word is offensive. [/quote] Np here. A lot of us think the word is [i]demeaning[/i], which is different than "offensive." Maid is a shortened version of "maiden," ithe unmarried (and not-well-born) young lass who comes to do your dirty work. It's like the country club member calling the teenage caddy "boy! Boy! Come here and get my XYZ !" Technically it's accurate -- maiden, boy -- but it's demeaning to call an adult woman doing paid work a "maid(en)" or a teen with a name "boy,!" [/quote]
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