31st August 2013, 11:36 AM
RedEarth Wrote:I think in the context hosty used it, as a slang term referring to a party with more men than womenWhich is how I was using it.
Quote:(although the implication is surely 'sad desperate men outnumbering the, therefore less sad and desperate women' is surely fairly insulting).
Which is not how I was using it. Nor was I aware of any such usage. Indeed in the first 30 entries for the term in Urban Dictionary, I was unable to find any reference to sadness or desperation, so I'm unclear as to where that alternative interpretation originated. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...usage+fest
Quote:The point is that it may or may not be seen as offensive depending on the circumstances but one can't assume anything.There's always a possibility that someone will misinterpret what you're saying. But given the context of this conversation, it seems a bit rich for a throwaway piece of slang to be misinterpreted and then used to 'demonstrate' that women can be sexist and then somehow divert the topic to being about how men are the victims. It would not have been a sensible assumption that this was going to occur.