User:Doctor165

The Ladies' Man 

Hello!

TL;DR:

One of my peeves is the phrase "Ladies' Man" because it's a gendered idiom that just means "this dude f***s!!!", but it's too impolite to just say that.

We don't use "Man's woman" so we shouldn't use "Ladies' man." We can say he's charming, or charismatic, or sophisticated, or anything else, or just maybe we can rewrite the sentence completely if him getting laid isn't contextually necessary.

Should I do something else? probably

Am I going to do something else? TBD

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Brief history of Ladies' Man
In the 1590s it was a "A Woman's Man"" who was an "effeminate fool" and likes “simple and pretty things”, “to wear sweet gloves and look on fine things...to follow plays and study dances, to hear news and buy trifles…to sigh for love and weep for kindness…to love nothing but gay, to look in a glass, to keep among wenches,… to be embraced in arms, and to be kissed on the cheek.”

In the 1890s it was a man who liked to spend his time with women, especially at dances and events.

In the 1931 movie it was a gigalo (or "dancing partner") or a man supported by an older woman in return for sex word and/or companionship.

In the 1961 movie it was a "girl-shy" Jerry Lewis living in a womens-only boarding house, run by a retired opera singer, and one woman helps him getting over being afraid of women. The joke is he is NOT a ladies man. This is also where Jerry Lewis landed his catchphrase "hey ladies". real A+ stuff.

In 1990s, Tim Meadows played a character who was mentally stuck in the 1970s and talked about his sexcapades. This culminated in a movie in 2000 called The Ladies Man.

So overtime it went from "man who likes effeminate things including dances, to man who likes to go to dances to man who likes to f***. And theres a million other ways to say that if we need to say that.

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