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[–] 12 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Could be her whales in the way that a person can refer to "my friends" or a professional can refer to "my clients" without the implication that the speaker owns those people.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago*

    Yes I once referred to the engineers on my team at work as “my engineers” in a conversation and someone got greatly offended by that, as if I was saying I owned them, though that was far from my intended meaning. “They are not the hell your engineers.”

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