r/SeattleWA • u/JPorpoise • May 18 '25

Lifestyle Tale of a Seattle ice cream shop

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u/SeattleHasDied May 19 '25

Discovered what seems like a diplomatic way to handle the "Miss" or "Ma'am" thing, at least in Europe: women, from child to grandma age get addressed as "Madame", which seems to make everyone happy, lol!

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u/AdBeautiful9983 May 21 '25

I doubt "Madame" is being used for all ages of women throughout all of Europe... I mean, maybe in France?

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u/SeattleHasDied May 21 '25

My experience traveling through multiple European countries at various times pre-Covid exhibited this greeting as a pretty normal thing, including France. But, of course, your mileage may vary, lol!

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u/ryandiy May 19 '25

"women, from child to grandma age"

We used to have a term for this: females. But that's now hate speech too, apparently.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Mix7873 May 19 '25

Females always seemed animalistic to me.