I've never cared for the term, "ricky-ticky." In my view, it's a silly-sounding way to describe something archaic. I can think of only one time that description hasn't irked me. A program director advised the DJs at a station where I worked to "keep the Dixieland jazz to a minimum" because she didn't want the station to sound "ancient and 'ricky-ticky.'"
In that case, the term worked, partially because of the quotation marks. In nearly every other case, however...
