I've never been able to understand why we refer to items in our collection as "Safe Queens". Why don't we call them "Safe Kings"? Is there a reason for being gender specific? Nothing like stereotyping something 
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Queen or King
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Well I think in a storage situation if the King gun is on top of the Queen gun, then you have both safe king and safe queen in residence.
Safe Kings have rust, dings, holster wear, shoot blanks and sport Goodyears. 
Safe Queens have elegance and beauty.
and sport Goodyears. Safe Queens have elegance and beauty.
JohnHL
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Traditionally, Kings went out, fought wars, and got killed.
Queens stayed in the castle and were protected from harm.
Someone will find this statement offensive.
John
Queens stayed in the castle and were protected from harm.
Someone will find this statement offensive.
John
Why do they call bed's King or Queen size. If someone is so big that they take up the whole bed they need to start eating more salads.
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I have a few safe Kings
Pretty sure I wasn't much older than 10 when I first learned how to play Chess and I couldn't understand why the Queen was blessed with all that ability and the King was seemingly in a wheelchair by comparison. Always thought (still do) that the King should be out there doing all that thrashing.
kwselke
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I've never been able to understand why we refer to items in our collection as "Safe Queens". Why don't we call them "Safe Kings"? Is there a reason for being gender specific? Nothing like stereotyping something
Safe Dweller is the modern androgynous politically correct term.
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Safe Queen.... all dressed up with nowhere to go
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Yes, it is likely from a derogatory view of women being ornamental and non-functional members of society - especially royalty. I don't know if using the term actually affects men's views of women or not.
bigwheelzip
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I like this reasoning:
Perhaps the grammarian Otto Jespersen came closest to an explanation in his Essentials of English Grammar (1933).
Jespersen wrote that some inanimate things may be personified "to show a certain kind of sympathy with or affection for the thing, which is thereby, as it were, raised above the inanimate sphere."
"In such cases," he adds, "the speaker does not really attribute sex to the thing in question, and the choice of a sexual pronoun is occasioned only by the fact that there is no non-sexual pronoun available except the inert it."
So sometimes we may feel that "it" is simply too lifeless and inadequate—or, as Jespersen says, "inert."
Perhaps the grammarian Otto Jespersen came closest to an explanation in his Essentials of English Grammar (1933).
Jespersen wrote that some inanimate things may be personified "to show a certain kind of sympathy with or affection for the thing, which is thereby, as it were, raised above the inanimate sphere."
"In such cases," he adds, "the speaker does not really attribute sex to the thing in question, and the choice of a sexual pronoun is occasioned only by the fact that there is no non-sexual pronoun available except the inert it."
So sometimes we may feel that "it" is simply too lifeless and inadequate—or, as Jespersen says, "inert."
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"Queen" isn't a pronoun.
TomkinsSP
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Well now, Christina, Daughter of Gustav II, styled as Queen of Sweeden during her minority, was in fact crowned King of Sweeden on her 18th birthday.
Takeaway: Queens can be Kings as well. Det ar allt.
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Takeaway: Queens can be Kings as well. Det ar allt.
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Wrangler Rich
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I must have both, they keep multiplying...
