when a woman says she wants to be treated like a lady...what does that mean to you?

She has either been going out with a bunch of jerks, or she is looking for a guy who likes to spend money on her.

see??? I never understood what this meant. Does it mean someone to hold the door open for her, wine and dine her romantically, what???


Myself, I prefer beer to wine and just as happy with a burger over a fancy restaurant.

To me it simply means to treat her as a woman not one of my rough and tumble freinds .I n other words gently and with respect.

Maybe it stems from this?

"As a title of nobility the uses of "lady" are parallel to those of "lord". It is thus a less formal alternative to the full title giving the specific rank, of marchioness, countess, viscountess or baroness, whether as the title of the husband's rank by right or courtesy, or as the lady's title in her own right. A peeress's title is used with the definite article: Lord Morris's wife is "The Lady Morris". A widow's title derived from her husband becomes the dowager, e.g. The Dowager Lady Smith. The title "Lady" is also used for a woman who is the wife of a Scottish feudal baron, the title "Lady" preceding the name of the barony."

Maybe its about being treated as royalty, being pampered, spoiled...?

Spot on.

Found this, kinda interesting...

"General usage: social class

In more recent years, usage of the word the lady is even more complicated. Journalist William Allen White noted one of the difficulties in his 1946 autobiography. He relates that a woman who had paid a fine for prostitution came to his newspaper to protest, not that the fact of her conviction was reported, but that the newspaper had referred to her as a "woman" rather than a "lady." Since that incident, White assured his readers, his papers referred to human females as "women", with the exception of police court characters, who were all "ladies".

White's anecdote touches on a phenomenon that others have remarked on as well. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, in a difference reflected in Nancy Mitford's essay "U vs. non-U", lower class women strongly preferred to be called "ladies" while women from higher social backgrounds were content to be identified as "women." Alfred Ayers remarked in 1881 that upper middle class female store clerks were content to be "saleswomen," while lower class female store clerks, for whom their job represented a social advancement, indignantly insisted on being called "salesladies." Something of this sense may also be underneath Kipling's lines:

For the Colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady —
Are sisters under their skins!

These social class issues, while no longer on the front burner in the twenty-first century, have imbued the formal use of "lady" with something of an odour of irony (e.g: "my cleaning lady").

It remains in use, for example, as a counterpart to "gentleman," in the phrase "ladies and gentlemen," and is generally interchangeable (in a strictly informal sense) with "woman" (as in, "The lady at the store said I could return this item within thirty days."). "Ladies" is also the normal text on the signs to any female toilet in a public place in the UK, again paired with "Gentlemen"

so there is a difference in being treated like a lady vs being treated as a woman?

To me it is more of not treating her like one of the guys or a buddy.

so what is the difference in a lady and a woman? is there one in regards to how they are treated?

Her face in a pillow?????

You are REALLY asking for it ain't ya?

THAT depends on what SIDE of the Country she's from...?lol


If she lives up north,,,she loves small gifts and ok manners, as well as acting very gentlemen like most times around her..
loves to show but not to share..looks mean everything.

If she's from the East,,she like to be greatly waited on by all who is around her, her gifts are more liked if they cost more,lol.
and as for manners and being a gentlemen,,,thats out the window in her mind as she won't be around you much anyway,,after the marriage she'll be out spending my money on her new honey.

If she's from the west, you must give her the first toke, gifts need to be mind moving ,,spin-wheels, kites, fans,lol
As to a gentlemen type,,she's HEARD of them but never met one yet.

Now, if their from the south, You need to know how to work a rope,
wear jeans that show your azz,and ya better know how to two-step..
as for gentlemen in their thoughts, Knows how to make money, and
acts his cowboy ways, puts her always first, good manners are MADE
if they lack any,wink, and DOORS better be openned,,or a boot will go up your azz.....and for being so kind and a gentlemen to them,
they can't wait to get home with you and USE that rope on your azz after they done ripped your new cowboy shirt off in one flickin flip and pull,,,rope ya, saddle ya,,and ride baby.....
And say a PRAYER,,,their NOT into SPURS......



Oh,,,I'm sorry Yellow,,,where yaw'll from??????

Terry...you know where I'm from

EXACTLY! ... Ding, Ding!

... Except that ya forgot to say... 'For HURS' ...part !!!

No, it's just guys made it up, calling the women on all sorts of names to get a piece of a$$ from the ones who play hard to get.