Ms, Mrs or Miss?

Person_one

janninew wrote: »

I think they do. My husband has just filled out a form for insurance online and it asked for his marital status. Men and women alike would be asked for their marital status on mortgage applications, bank applications etc.

I just got asked for it on an online competition to win an ipad.

Only one option for the me, 3 for me!

janninew

Person_one wrote: »

I just got asked for it on an online competition to win an ipad.

Only one option for the me, 3 for me!

Men would probably get confused if they had more than 1 option!!

Person_one

janninew wrote: »

Men would probably get confused if they had more than 1 option!!

And they say its feminist who think so little of them...;)

janninew

Person_one wrote: »

And they say its feminist who think so little of them...;)

Maybe I'm a secret feminist at heart! :rotfl:

melanzana

Hi all, haven't read all the thread, but my firm view is that everyone should call themselves nothing, no title, but have F or M before or after the name. Total equality!

e.g. Mary Hinge f.... Tom Jonas m.

The middle initial is usually just there.. in the middle - to avoid confusion.

Covers everything, including odd foreign names where we may not be too sure of the gender.

So that's just what I have emailed to my TD (MP in UK), saves all the messing.

And obviously, if you want to retain Ms, Miss, or Mrs, that's fine. But I'd prefer to be called melanzana f, thank you very much.

I will not hold my breath or I will die of suffocation on that one!

Mojisola

janninew wrote: »

I think they do. My husband has just filled out a form for insurance online and it asked for his marital status. Men and women alike would be asked for their marital status on mortgage applications, bank applications etc.

Filling in a form where everyone has to give their marital status is not an issue.

For me, being asked whether you are single or married so that someone can use Miss or Mrs when they write to you or send a delivery is an issue - it's not relevant.

Person_one

melanzana wrote: »

Hi all, haven't read all the thread, but my firm view is that everyone should call themselves nothing, no title, but have F or M before or after the name. Total equality!

e.g. Mary Hinge f.... Tom Jonas m.

The middle initial is usually just there.. in the middle - to avoid confusion.

Covers everything, including odd foreign names where we may not be too sure of the gender.

So that's just what I have emailed to my TD (MP in UK), saves all the messing.

And obviously, if you want to retain Ms, Miss, or Mrs, that's fine. But I'd prefer to be called melanzana f, thank you very much.

I will not hold my breath or I will die of suffocation on that one!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer

Mojisola

melanzana wrote: »

Hi all, haven't read all the thread, but my firm view is that everyone should call themselves nothing, no title, but have F or M before or after the name. Total equality!

Very futuristic!

Men used to have Esq after their names so maybe it's not completely impossible to see it happening. We could adopt Esq and a female equivalent.

melanzana

Person_one wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer

Eh, no.....I would prefer just a definition of either male or female. No title reaquired .;)

So if one is genderqueer as you link above, AFAIK one has to be defined as either male or female even if gender reassignment has taken place, or if one doesn't know what or who they are, they have to decide either m or f, for a passport for example.

Problem solved.

melanzana

Mojisola wrote: »

Filling in a form where everyone has to give their marital status is not an issue.

For me, being asked whether you are single or married so that someone can use Miss or Mrs when they write to you or send a delivery is an issue - it's not relevant.

Asking marital status is a no no for me.

Unless I am filling in the Probate Form, where if my oh died without a will I would get something from being his spouse!

Other than that, I think it's an intrusion on my privacy TBH.

Sorry, just can't think at the moment of instances where marital status would be asked outside of say a passport application (but not sure about that being necessary though) or as said above, inheritance by right of spouse.

I'd love someone to show me other instances where marital status is so important (or critical) in relation to questions on documents etc.


Maybe benefits etc, but not sure... thanks.....