I refuse to wear panties. Before you ask, I don't walk around commando. I just hate the word "panties." It makes me twitch. It just sounds so...so dainty.
Not just dainty. Daaaaiiiinnnty. As if women, by the very act of being women, are only able to wear something that ends with the suffix "ies". We don't wear pants. We wear panties.
Of course, the other female-biased words describing those articles of clothing we wear over our bum aren't much better. Lingerie. Intimates. Dainties. Did you hear me gag on that last one?
What's wrong with "underwear?" Not "undies", that's for small children, but "underwear." There's no gender inferences, not even the vaguest description of what the clothing looks like. It's just clothing that you wear...under your clothes.
It's a pet peeve, and it's silly...but oh how I hate that word.
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I hate that word too. It seems as if the word is almost perverted.
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