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- From: bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh)
- Subject: Girls-2-Women
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.195418.26105@tronsbox.xei.com>
- Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.
- References: <1992Nov4.113100.26440@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov4.164637.15899@umr.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:54:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov4.164637.15899@umr.edu> martinas@nixon.cs.umr.edu (Martina Schollmeyer) writes:
- >
- >And, BTW, how about calling us "women" instead of girls ? Or do you want to
- >be called a "boy" ?
-
- I really wouldn't mind. I can explain the problem >I< had getting
- used to saying "woman" instead of "girl". I spent the first two
- decades of my life referring to female humans my own age as "girls".
- I spent a big chunk of the next decade doing the same thing, until
- somebody yelled at me. I mean YELLED. At a party. It had never occured
- to me that it was inappropriate, just like it had never occured to me that
- when somebody called male humans my age "boys" I should get offended.
-
- For most of us, they're only words, and don't carry the heavy
- emotional baggage they do for others of us.
-
- bill
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- * Bill Cavanaugh bleys@tronsbox.xei.com *
- * *
- "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug."
- Mark Knopfler
- XY + XX = :-)
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