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LOL. Cans. It was because the old giant headphones typically looked like "cans" and the term is OLD. Ghetto? Hardly. I have no idea what they call headphones in the "ghetto" but I doubt it's cans. Whom is it disrespectful to? Because people have called breasts "cans" before? Well what do you call an actual can then? :D
 
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bbeagle said:
Maybe I'm just not an audiophile - but I absolutely hate people using the word 'cans' to describe headphones. Sounds so ghetto and disrespectful to me.
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Interesting. does garbage can sound disrespectful and ghetto to you? Cans are the shape of the device that goes over your ears.
 
OneMike said:
Interesting. does garbage can sound disrespectful and ghetto to you? Cans are the shape of the device that goes over your ears.
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No - using the term 'cans' to refer to tin cans, garbage cans, or any type of actual CANS is fine.

But to use 'cans' for headphones sounds like using 'cans' to describe a woman's breasts - both sound very disrespectful to me.
 
bbeagle said:
No - using the term 'cans' to refer to tin cans, garbage cans, or any type of actual CANS is fine.

But to use 'cans' for headphones sounds like using 'cans' to describe a woman's breasts - both sound very disrespectful to me.
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It sounds to me like you have the word "cans" set in your mind as women's breasts already or you wouldn't make that connection in the first place! I mean why do you think of womens' breasts when you hear "cans" rather than tin cans or trash cans? Whose head is in the sewer? I don't know what the big deal is anyway. We all have breasts or "cans" as you seem to think of them. Only the size is different and the US double standard for nipples (they look the same but guys can show theirs and women cannot even though the rest of the breast size is typically the only real visual difference and many women have smaller breasts than some fat guys so WTF is the big deal about breasts in the US? In Europe, NO ONE CARES (a breast isn't a genital, after all). The US is way too uptight (and the Middle East 100x more so as they want women to cover EVERYTHING). Let's have endless violence on TV and in movies, but show a female nipple? OMG! The world is ending! :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
bbeagle said:
No - using the term 'cans' to refer to tin cans, garbage cans, or any type of actual CANS is fine.

But to use 'cans' for headphones sounds like using 'cans' to describe a woman's breasts - both sound very disrespectful to me.
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That's just strange IMO, but to each their own. I can't imagine how you can be disrespectful to an inanimate object. I do appreciate your explanation though.
 
MagnusVonMagnum said:
It sounds to me like you have the word "cans" set in your mind as women's breasts already or you wouldn't make that connection in the first place
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Maybe you're right and it's a US or cultural thing for me. I guess that the people who respect women around me don't use the terms melons, cans, milk-makers or any other words to describe women. The ones who disrespect women DO use those terms, and maybe when I hear those words used as a nickname for something that they're not, I have the wrong opinion.
 
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