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Vandalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weapon_of_mass_destruction&oldid=189554097

I reverted the vandalism.

King Semsem (talk) 20:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

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Photo request

I saw your name at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers. For spite house, please photograph the Montlake Spite House located at 2022 24th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112 if you are in that area. Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 01:10, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Literati (game)

I've put this article up for proposed deletion (with WP:N and WP:V concerns.) You may like to address the concerns! Marasmusine (talk) 13:27, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Seattle meetup 5

Hi WAvegetarian, I see that you've attended the Seattle meetup 3 back in 2006. I hope that you can make it to the next one on June 19! Bestchai (talk) 22:07, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Help needed: Title change

Hi, Sorry to trouble you, but I didn't know where else to go for help. I've written a biography of the late stage and silent film star Paul Gilmore, but I had to list him as "Paul H. Gilmore" because there was another guy on Wikipedia named "Paul Gillmor." There really is no way to confuse the two because the spellings of the last name are completely different, but Wikipedia wouldn't let me list my guy as "Paul Gilmore." Hence, I had to add the middle initial to make it different.

I'd like to change that -- to list him, simply, as "Paul Gilmore," which is how he was known. How do I go about doing that?

Just as an added note; I'm rewriting the bio this weekend to reflect new information that has come to me, and will whip it into shape regarding style, references, etc.

Thank you for your help! CC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.138.33.122 (talk) 15:12, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

eighth blackbird

I think the issue here is that eighth blackbird is not the professionally used (or stage name) of a person (and so cannot be compared to will.i.am or k.d. lang). It is a trademark, and therefore seems to fall under those conventions (MOS:TM) when titling a Wikipedia article, as do craigslist, adidas, and thirtysomething. If you can find circumstances where lowercased trademarks (excepting of course eBay, iPod, etc.) are used lowercase in their Wikipedia article titles — in particular other musical groups — and prove that they are comforming to Wikipedia naming conventions, it might more readily be seen to possibly apply here. Anyway, that's my take on it at the moment, after researching the matter for about 20 minutes. Softlavender (talk) 01:54, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Adidas: Yes, it (and the others) should always be in uppercase:

• Trademarks rendered without any capitals are always capitalized:
  • avoid: thirtysomething is a television show that may have been sponsored by adidas, but not by craigslist, because the show was over before craigslist existed.
  • instead, use: Thirtysomething is a television show that may have been sponsored by Adidas, but not by Craigslist, because the show was over before Craigslist existed.

From MOS:TM. I started to think about fixing it just now, but there's spillover to another Adidas subsidiary's article and I felt I didn't have the time at present. Softlavender (talk) 05:39, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

I wonder if a Bot could do all of those annoying fixes? Because it's just not my cup of tea. I will leave it to your discretion. BTW, Happy holidays! Softlavender (talk) 13:47, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Totally hear you. Have fun in your classes, whatever they be. (What be they, if the conversation warrants?) Softlavender (talk) 04:17, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of YMCA Camp Orkila

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Non-notable summer camp. Other summer camps over 100 years old include Camp Mowglis (founded 1903) YMCA Camp St. Croix, Lake Delaware Boys' Camp, YMCA Camp Eberhart, Camp Lincoln - Camp Lake Hubert, and Camp Wachusett. There are many more, I just searched by "founded 1903" or "founded 1909" and "summer camp". Try searching by some other years.

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MSU Interview

Dear WAvegetarian,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.9.115.210 (talk) 21:37, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

image use

i have used this picture 'Burning_Bunsen_burner.jpg'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alvinkyw (talk • contribs) 15:02, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

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This page is about the word. For other uses, see WAvegetarian (disambiguation).

The word pussy refers to cats, weakness or cowardice, or female genitalia, in addition to other meanings.

The word pussy is a noun, an adjective, and in rare uses a verb in the English language. It has several meanings, including use as slang, as euphemism, and as vulgarity. Because of its multiple senses including both innocent and vulgar connotations, it is often the subject of double entendre.

The etymology of the word is not entirely clear. Several different senses of the word have different histories or origins.

Common meanings of the noun include "cat", "coward or weakling", and "the human vulva or vagina", or as a synecdoche, "sexual intercourse with a woman". Adjective meanings are related to the noun. As a homograph, pussy also has the meaning "containing pus"; with this meaning, the word is pronounced /ˈpʌsɪ/, while the other forms are all pronounced /ˈpʊsɪ/. Another adjective is the rare or obsolete Northern English dialect form pursy meaning "fat" or "short-winded". Meanings of the verb relate to the common noun senses, including "to act like a cat", "to act like a coward", or "to have sex with a woman".

Etymology

The noun pussy meaning "cat" comes from the Modern English word puss, a conventional name or term of address for a pet cat. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) says that cognates are common to several Germanic languages, including Dutch poes and Middle Low German pūse, which are also used to call a cat. The word puss is attested in English as early as 1533. Earlier etymology is uncertain, but similar words exist in other European languages, including Lithuanian puižė and Irish puisín, both traditional calls to attract a cat.

The words puss and derived forms pussy and pusscat were extended to refer to girls or women by the seventeenth century. This sense of pussy was used to refer specifically to genitalia by the eighteenth century, and from there further extended to refer to sexual intercourse involving a woman by the twentieth century.

Noah Webster, in his original 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language, defined pussy as: "inflated, swelled; hence, fat, short and thick; and as persons of this make labor in respiration, the word is used for short breathed". He gave pursy as a "corrupt orthography" or misspelling of pussy. In 1913, however, Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary reversed the original, suggesting that pussy was a "colloquial or low" variant of pursy. That word, in turn, was defined as "fat and short-breathed", with etymology from Old French pousser "to push".

The Webster's Third International Dictionary points out similarities between pussy in the sense of "vulva" and Low German or Scandinavian words meaning "pocket" or "purse", including Old Norse pūss and Old English pusa.

The medieval French word pucelle, meaning "maiden" or "virgin", is not related to the English word. It is attested in Old French from the ninth century, and likely derives from Latin. The precise Latin source is disputed, with either puella "girl" or pulla "pullet, young female chicken" suggested as earlier sources.

Uses

Cat and similar

Male catkins from a pussy willow

Both in English and in German puss was used as a "call-name" for cats, but in English pussy was used as a synonym for the word cat in other uses as well. In addition to cats, the word was also used for rabbits and hares as well as a humorous name for tigers. In the 19th century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the meaning was extended to anything soft and furry. Pussy willow, for example, is a name applied to various species in the genus Salix with furry catkins. In thieves' cant the word pussy means a "fur coat".

The verb pussyfoot, meaning to walk softly or to speak in an evasive or cautious manner, may come from the adjective pussy-footed "having a cat-like foot", or directly from the noun pussyfoot. This word, first attested in the late nineteenth century, is related to both the "cat" and the "woman" meanings of pussy.

Female genitalia

File:Griffintown street art Montreal pussy 29-03-2014.jpg

An example of double entendre in street art: a graffiti mural of a woman caressing a pussycat between her legs.

In contemporary English, use of the word pussy to refer to women is considered derogatory or demeaning, treating people as sexual objects. As a reference to genitals or to sexual intercourse, the word is considered vulgar slang. Studies find the word used more commonly in conversations among men than in groups of women or mixed-gender groups, though subjects report using pussy more often than other slang terms for female genitals.

Words referring to cats are used as vulgar slang for female genitals in some other European languages as well. Examples include German Muschi (literally "house cat"), French chatte ("female cat", also used to refer to sexual intercourse), and Dutch poes ("puss"). The Portuguese term rata (literally "female rat") and Norwegian mus ("mouse") are also animal terms used as vulgar slang for women's genitals.

Weakness

See also: Gender role

The word pussy is also used in a derogatory sense to mean cowardly, weak, or easily fatigued. The Collins Dictionary says: "(taboo, slang, mainly US) an ineffectual or timid person." It may refer to a male who is not considered sufficiently masculine, as in: "The coach calls us pussies."

Men dominated by women (particularly their partners or spouses and at one time referred to as 'Hen-pecked') can be referred to as pussy-whipped (or simply whipped in slightly more polite society or media). This may be used simply to denigrate a man who is contented in a relationship. The hyphenated phrase is parsed as "whipped by pussy" – a manipulative relationship dynamic wherein a female deliberately or subconsciously (see passive-aggressive) withholds sexual intercourse to coerce the male into surrendering power in other aspects of the relationship. The male's weakness is his desire for access to female genitalia, and his willingness to weaken his position in the relationship to obtain that access, combining two uses of the word pussy.

Word-play between meanings

The Barrison Sisters lift their dresses to show a live kitten, a double entendre of "pussy".

Pussy is one of a large number of English words that has both erotic and non-erotic meanings. Such double entendre has long been used in the creation of sexual humor. The double entendre has been used for over a hundred years by performers, including the late-19th-century vaudeville act the Barrison Sisters, who performed the notorious routine "Do You Want To See My Pussy?" in which they raised their skirts to reveal live kittens.

In the British comedy Are You Being Served? the character Mrs. Slocombe often expressed concern for the welfare of her pussy. The double entendre made every reference to her cat seem to be a salacious and therefore humorous reference to her vagina.

In the 2002 film 8 Mile a rapper insults his rivals by including the line, "How can six dicks be pussies?" The line relies on double meanings of both dick (either "contemptible person" or "male genitalia") and pussy ("weak" or "female genitalia"). Such word play presents a challenge for translators of the film.

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk-rock collective that stages illegal events in Moscow protesting the Putin regime and the status of women in Russian society. Band member "Kot" says that she knows how the word is used in English, and that it is also used in Russian as term of endearment for little girls. These various meanings create a tension with the word "riot", which the group likes.

See also

• Wuss

References

External links

• Don't be so beastly! by Justine Hankins. The Guardian, June 14, 2003.
• Pussy This, Pussy That by Aura Bogado, 2002.
• "Pussy". Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828).