Title for Female Knights

[Aus_Snow]

It sounds like a combination of 'Majesty' and 'Dominatrix'. I'm not sure I'd even want to be called that as an honorific.

*phew* I wasn´t the only person thinking that, then.

Good.

 

[Hairfoot]

Dame Edna...

Of course, she's more of a self-titled knight, a la Don Quixote.

 

[Cedric]

Ah yes, Dame.

I can't believe I didn't think of that. . .

But then again, I may stick with 'sir' if only because it commands more respect even today and I want to avoid the OOC mockery of the term "dame" in the chauvanistic context.

Hehe, someone else touched on it, but I wouldn't tell Dame Judi Dench that, she might just send out 007 to "take care" of you.

 

[Aeric]

Sir.

In an egalitarian fantasy society, why couldn't the word be gender neutral? Ever watched Battlestar Galactica?

Edit: Ma'am is the equivalent honorific in today's US military, FWIW.

Actually, Star Trek did it long before BSG ever did.

And ma'am is short for madam, which is a bastardized form of "my dame." FYI.

 

[Wraith Form]

"Heeeeey, baay-bee! What's happenin' momma?!? You lookin' fiiiiiine, mamacita! You wanna come over my plac---*urk*"

~ guts proceed to fall out ~

 

[trancejeremy]

Actually, Star Trek did it long before BSG ever did.

Back in the 80s when I was taking Tae Kwon Do, we used "Sir" for women, too.

Dame sounds better though, I think.

 

[frankthedm]

Make one up?

I considered "Lady", but "Lady" is not only too genteel, I also reserved it for the female counterpart to a "Lord".

Not as high as Lord/Lady so splitting the difference between Lord & Lass = Lard?

 

[Aurora]

*phew* I wasn´t the only person thinking that, then.

Good.

right there with ya. I too like dame.

 

[Solarious]

Lady is nice, Dame is good...

But I like Hypersmurf's use of Sera, especially in the context of Serra, of MtG fame.

 

[Paradigm]

Madam or Dame