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- From: kate@cactus.org (Katherine M. Catmull)
- Subject: Re: Is a bimbo the modern name for hussy?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.215850.379@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- References: <1992Dec18.194037.19020@PacBell.COM> <JMC.92Dec18145313@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec21.171142.4541@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:58:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.171142.4541@u.washington.edu> hoosiers@carson.u.washington.edu (Mary Loveless) writes:
- >In article <JMC.92Dec18145313@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >>John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305 says:
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- >>I'm beginning to get it. Is a bimbo what a Valley girl become when
- >>she drops out of high school?
- >>>It seems that the use of bimbo to refer to males is not in popular
- >>use.
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- My younger sisters (mid-twenties) use the words "bimbo" and
- "slut" in a completely non-gender-specific way.
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- This was a surprise to me when I first heard it, though a pleasant
- one. Maybe it's a New-ish Thing. They're both awfully cutting-edge.
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- Kate
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