Talk:Maid

Sexual abuse
I don't have a source for that comment about sexual abuse. However, it makes sense to me, and I did read some historical study on it somewhere.

Does anyone know of a source? --Zaorish 06:04, 17 March 2006 (UTC)


 * While I do not know of a source there was a book (which I have since forgotten the name of) that I read in which one scene the maid is spanked by the lord of the house. She had failed to clean the man's bedroom at which point he spanked her. I belive this book was set in the 1880s though written in the last ten years. Certainly it is unclear wether the man was doing this as punishment or for sexual means- I would suggest it was the latter. Certanly when confronted with the question of losing her job or a painful spanking a woman would chose a spanking- given how hard jobs were to obtain. Qwert11 08:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I took it out because it's pretty much pointless. EVERY job that wasn't "on the top" had abuse of one sort or another. That's what gave birth to labor unions and labor laws.


 * This sort of spanking was almost surely considered and understood as punishment. Of course, there are those people who draw sadistic (is that sexual?) pleasure from punishing others; but it was punishment. - However, one Southern German word for a bastard is a "Bankert", which means one conceived on the bench (Bank) of the maid rather than in the bed (where the wife sleeps), so you get the idea. I wouldn't say this was necessarily always abuse, by the way (unless, of course, you count "adultery of a married employer with an employee" as an abuse by definition, due to the dependency).--131.159.76.171 (talk) 19:18, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

"perhaps with her ninth degree or less"
I have no idea what this means and think it may be specific to the US or something. Is there a better way of putting it so that people outside the US would get it?

Jumbles1971 10:37, 24 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't think it's about the U.S.... Unless the person meant, 'with a ninth grade education or less?' Which I don't think s/he did, because it's not terribly common for maids to be less than 18 in the U.S. Actually, the last three sentences really need to be cited. 70.132.3.101 —The preceding  signed but undated.

Upstairs, downstairs?
The article references these words multiple times but provides no explanation on what they actually mean. 178.183.236.139 (talk) 09:35, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I can only find the words "Upstairs, Downstairs" in one location in this article (in the section "In popular culture"). Far from providing "no explanation", there is a full explanation of the meaning, and the words themselves are wikilinked to the "Upstairs, Downstairs" article where you can read more. I am unclear exactly what you are looking for. Have you realised that words shown in blue are wikilinks - this means you can click on them for further explanation? The only other thing I can think of is that you are seeking the etymology of the actual words "upstairs" and "downstairs". If this is the case, you need to look in a dictionary, for example Wiktionary.  Timothy Titus Talk To TT  10:03, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Prostitution
I have reverted a series of edits made by Iantresman relating to the use of the word 'maid' in sex industry slang. The reason for the revert is that this article is about female servants working in domestic service in private homes - the topic is made abundantly clear by the lead paragraph, and drawn out as such by the entire article. The edits were therefore off topic and inappropriate. If there is a genuine case for such a definition (sex industry worker) to be recorded on Wikipedia, then it should be at the Maid (disambiguation) page; however, I have not copied the material to that page myself, as I would consider the case for its inclusion very flimsy. If it is genuine, then it is a very specialised slang; one of the references provided is unreadable without paid subscription; the other reference provided is from a topic-specific slang dictionary. In any case, the material certainly doesn't belong on this page.  Timothy Titus Talk To TT  05:09, 11 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I felt that the description was sufficient similar to warrant inclusion. I would say that it is no more specialized than the archaic terms listed in the article. I suspect that if the new description was in any other industry, it wouldn't be a problem. --Iantresman (talk) 08:17, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

umm...
I am writing a historical fiction. would it be weird if she did everything? if so is there a name for such a person. she would be a royal maid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.109.80.32 (talk) 20:57, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

History
What is the migrant labour system 41.116.222.84 (talk) 13:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)