What does it mean to be a lady?

The term 'lady' is analogous to 'real man'. 'Being a lady' is useless  phrase since everyone understands it differently. One could say that a lady is just a well behaved person that happened to be a woman. Someone else would describe 'lady' as girl that is behaving and dressing up in very feminine and 'classy' way. Everybody can think about 'somebody being a lady' in different ways and it's hard to establish who's right. It would be much more precise if we stop using general concepts such as 'lady' and 'real man'. In conclusion, I have no idea what does it mean to be a lady, but at the same time I don't think that anyone does.

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  1. englishdiary10 maja 2018 00:44

    There is a kind of relativism in your thinking ("Everybody can think about 'somebody being a lady' in different ways") which could be counterproductive if you apply it to every concept. You could easily say that people understand concepts like 'crime', 'love', 'honesty' in different ways, which makes it impossible to find any common ground. And we need common ground because concepts like these the basis for our societies. So is the idea of 'good manners' or 'kindness', which the concept of a 'lady' relates to.
    Philosophy and then law has been working on such definitions for millennia and they do have some success so let's not go back to the dark ages.

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