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minus-squareStormyfemme@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·2 years ago“Maiden” used to imply virginity and “fair” implies light, usually white, skin. Doesn’t take a leap to figure out why censors in the 60s would have found it objectionable to call attention to that.
minus-squareCraigeryTheKid@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 years agoI wasn’t even thinking about words like maiden having “deeper” meaning back then … Thanks!
minus-squareNorah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoThat’s why the term “Old Maid” used to be such a biting insult as well.
minus-squaretias@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years agoDoesn’t it still mean virgin? If not what does it mean? Non-native speaker here.
minus-squareVindictiveJudge@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 years agoNowadays ‘maiden’ can just mean ‘young woman’.
“Maiden” used to imply virginity and “fair” implies light, usually white, skin. Doesn’t take a leap to figure out why censors in the 60s would have found it objectionable to call attention to that.
I wasn’t even thinking about words like maiden having “deeper” meaning back then … Thanks!
That’s why the term “Old Maid” used to be such a biting insult as well.
Doesn’t it still mean virgin? If not what does it mean? Non-native speaker here.
Nowadays ‘maiden’ can just mean ‘young woman’.
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Oooh! Now I get it!