Sir

[dragonlady7]

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attoliaattolis:

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. 

I know that it’s a thing to call female officers “Sir” in Star Trek, maybe it’s crossed over?

Is it in both Star Trek *and* BSG? I am very scifi-deficient, but that shocks me, regardless.

Sir is not gender-neutral. I heartily dislike this establishing of “male” as “default”. That is the opposite of progressive. 

I didn’t know I cared this much but I’ll die on this hill, wow!