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Skip the Ma’am, Please

When I turned 30, my best friend gave me a birthday card that read, “Happy Birthday, Ma’am.” Then on the inside: “Get used to it.” But I can’t. Six years and hundreds more “ma’ams” later, I still bristle every time I hear it. So when I read Natalie Angier’s article, “The Politics of Polite,” it, […]