[maica]

The Queen of England is addressed as Ma'am. Why does Barbara Boxer ‘feel’ that form of address is not courteous enough.

[muawiyah]

That’s because Barbara Boxer is remarkably stupid ~ even for a US Senator

[Ev Reeman]

The military is conditioned to address people as sir and maam. Barbara Boxer is a useless moron who should have been put out to pasture by the voters of California a very long time ago.

[fightinJAG]

All this showed was that Babs Boxers is TOTALLY IGNORANT of military culture and protocol.

In the military, everyone who is senior to you is addressed as either “sir” or “ma’am.”

If a private is addressing a female lieutenant, he says “yes, ma’am.” If a three-star general is addressing a four-star general, who happens to be female, the three-star general addresses the four-star general as “ma’am.” It is not only a sign of respect, it is utterly required by military culture.

So when this general called Babs “ma’am,” he did so solely and completely b/c, as a Senator, she “out-ranks” him, not technically, but in terms of protocol. In fact, to go out of his way to not call her “ma’am,” in military culture, would be a sign of disrespect.

For example, if a LT continually said “Yes, Captain” to a female CPT, rather than “yes, ma’am.”

Babs not only showed that feminazism is soooo 20th century, she demonstrated unequivocally that she is an ignoramus.