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wisekrakens:
bomberqueen17:
Question:
why does everyone have Poe call Leia “sir”?
My sister is a Lt. Col. in the Army and she is addressed as “Ma’am” and gets annoyed if I joke around and call her “sir”. (We had a whole running gag with it when we were younger. She’s the oldest of us.)
Is it from a show or something, or– I just don’t know where the kids get their ideas, but it is nearly ubiquitous in fanfic and I don’t understand it. Gender presentation matters, Leia is everywhere else presented as female, and it makes me uncomfortable to think that calling someone “Ma’am” can’t be a mark of respect.
It’s a BSG thing, I think? I only watched it briefly, but I remember “female officer = sir” weirding me out a little bit.
Is that it? I figured it had to be something. But why? Why do they do it, there? I cannot think of a single reason why you would call a woman “sir” that does not *severely* devalue the entire concept of “ma'am” in a way that makes me deeply offended.
wisekrakens:
bomberqueen17:
Question:
why does everyone have Poe call Leia “sir”?
My sister is a Lt. Col. in the Army and she is addressed as “Ma’am” and gets annoyed if I joke around and call her “sir”. (We had a whole running gag with it when we were younger. She’s the oldest of us.)
Is it from a show or something, or– I just don’t know where the kids get their ideas, but it is nearly ubiquitous in fanfic and I don’t understand it. Gender presentation matters, Leia is everywhere else presented as female, and it makes me uncomfortable to think that calling someone “Ma’am” can’t be a mark of respect.
It’s a BSG thing, I think? I only watched it briefly, but I remember “female officer = sir” weirding me out a little bit.
Is that it? I figured it had to be something. But why? Why do they do it, there? I cannot think of a single reason why you would call a woman “sir” that does not *severely* devalue the entire concept of “ma'am” in a way that makes me deeply offended.
