[rusticgal]

Originally Posted by Nemo123

Jim said once, he was on a plane, and the capta

in came on the intercom, and she was a woman, and he got off the plane.

He didn't say it on CBB did he?..... Just want people judging his 'male chauvanism' on what has been seen on CBB... He has been on our screens for over 2 weeks and there doesn't seem much proof for people to judge him....and your example therefore doesn't really count.

[Nemo123]

Originally Posted by rusticgal

He didn't say it on CBB did he?..... Just want people judging his 'male chauvanism' on what has been seen on CBB... He has been on our screens for over 2 weeks and there doesn't seem much proof for people to judge him....and your example therefore doesn't really count.

No he didn't say it on BB. It was quite funny actually. Very Jimbo. This is his schtick. This is why he's funny.

[Nemo123]

Chauvinism is derived from the French, chauffeur, the fellow who shoveled the coal into the steam engine, from chaude, French for hot, as opposed to froide, or cold. It was a man's job.

[Z]

Originally Posted by Nemo123

Chauvinism is derived from the French, chauffeur, the fellow who shoveled the coal into the steam engine, from chaude, French for hot, as opposed to froide, or cold. It was a man's job.

Isn't it named after one of Napoleon's supporters and it originally just meant nationalist or something like that?

[Nemo123]

Originally Posted by Zee

Isn't it named after one of Napoleon's supporters and it originally just meant nationalist or something like that?

I was wrong. I thought it was the chauffeur connection. I.e, driver. Male chauvinism means men should drive, but apparently that's incorrect.

[Z]

Yeah.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvinism

Chauvinism, in its original meaning, is an exaggerated patriotism and a belligerent belief in national superiority and glory.[1] Its eponym is a French soldier Nicolas Chauvin, who was badly wounded in the Napoleonic wars. He received a pension for his injuries but it was not enough to live on. After Napoleon abdicated, Chauvin was a fanatical Bonapartist despite the unpopularity of this view in Bourbon Restoration France. His single-minded blind devotion to his cause, despite neglect by his faction and harassment by its enemies, started the use of the term.

By extension, it has come to include an extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of any group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards rival groups. Jingoism is the British parallel form of this French word, but its meaning has not expanded beyond nationalism in the same way that the word chauvinism has.

A contemporary use of the term in English is in the phrase male chauvinism.

[Macie Lightfoot]

lol k keep telling yourself that

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by troynuncdicit

lol k keep telling yourself that

And lol k it works both ways

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by Cherie

And lol k it works both ways

Does it though? Whatever "it" is even

[Nemo123]

Without Wiki, I still think male chauvinism means that men should drive, or lead.

[Nemo123]

chauf·feur
ˈSHōfər,SHōˈfər/
noun
noun: chauffeur; plural noun: chauffeurs

1.
a person employed to drive a private or rented automobile.

verb
verb: chauffeur; 3rd person present: chauffeurs; past tense: chauffeured; past participle: chauffeured; gerund or present participle: chauffeuring

1.
drive (a car or a passenger in a car), typically as part of one's job.
"she insisted on being chauffeured around"

Origin
late 19th cent. (in the general sense ‘motorist’): from French, literally ‘stoker’ (by association with steam engines), from chauffer ‘to heat.’

[Nemo123]

"Origin
late 19th cent. (in the general sense ‘motorist’): from French, literally ‘stoker’ (by association with steam engines), from chauffer ‘to heat.’"

[Nemo123]

My mistake was to think Chauvinism was related to chauffeur.