[Ads-l] Real Women Don't Pump Gas (Re: to ship)

[Barretts Mail]

Nice article, as always.

This reminded me of “real men don’t eat quiche” and “real women don’t pump gas,” two expressions I recall from the 70s. Presumably “real artists ship” borrows from that.

Barry Popik (http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2004-October/042186.html <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2004-October/042186.html>) mentions the expression about men:

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"REAL MEN DON'T EAT QUICHE"

OEFDA
Vol. II, pg. 132:
"In the 1960s and 1970s the saying 'real men don't eat quiche' summed up
gender expectations.."

Author Bruce Feirstein coined this for a book title...in 1982.

(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
    Best Sellers
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: May 30, 1982. p. BR20 (1
page)
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The expression about women is not in the archives. There is a book “Real Women Don’t Pump Gas” (https://www.worldcat.org/title/real-women-dont-pump-gas/oclc/832549304&referer=brief_results <https://www.worldcat.org/title/real-women-dont-pump-gas/oclc/832549304&referer=brief_results>), but it wasn’t published until 1983. I don’t see anything earlier in Google Books. Perhaps my memory of the 70s is simply misplaced.

An important element to the expression is that filling stations often had two options: pump yourself of have an attendant do it for you.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 13 Oct 2018, at 08:01, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>> The English OLD (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ship
>> <https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ship>) says: [no object]
>> (of a product) be made available for purchase.
> 
> Thanks to Benjamin whose message about "to ship" inspired me to move
> forward with an article about an adage attributed to Steve Jobs:
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> Real Artists Ship
> https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/10/13/ship/
> 
> Garson
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>> 
>> Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ship#Verb <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ship#Verb>) has (surely the first sentence is the middle voice): (transitive, intransitive) To release a product to vendors; to launch.
>> Our next issue ships early next year.
>> The developers had to ship the game two weeks late.
>> 
>> Facebook prototypes Unsend 6 months after Zuckerberg retracted messages
>> by Josh Constine
>> https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/12/facebook-messenger-unsend/ <https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/12/facebook-messenger-unsend/>
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>> Late last week, TechCrunch asked Facebook about its progress on Unsend ahead of the six month mark, and the company told us “Though we have nothing to announce today, we have previously confirmed that we intend to ship a feature like this and are still planning to do so.”
>> ——
>> 
>> “To ship” does not require a purchase, a vendor or a product. It simply means “release” or “make available for download/use”. It might be useful to confine this meaning to cyberspace, but it seems likely that there are cases where a company uses “to “ship” in an offer for something that can be downloaded or received in the mail (on a disk).
>> 
>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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