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From: gazit%oberon.usc.edu@usc.edu (Hillel)
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Subject: Re: Girls, girls, girls
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Date: 12 Sep 90 19:05:51 GMT
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#what sickens me is to hear women who should know better using the term
#girl" incorrectly, belittling themselves in the process.  but then
#language is a very powerful thing.

In article <11927@chaph.usc.edu> wilber%aludra.usc.edu@usc.EDU (John Wilber) writes:
>Why are you so touchy about this?  For what reason do you attribute
>some kind of "belittling" meaning to this word?  I am sure that the
>vast majority of the users (and listeners for that matter) of the word
>"girl" see nothing derogatory about it.  

If the language is so un-important, as you said, then why do you care
so much about it?  Why not to call human females over 18 women (or
womyn or wimmin or whatever they will want in the Nineties)
and be done with this silly subject?

Why to debate so much a subject that has so little importance,
in *your* opinion?

Hillel                                                 gazit@cs.duke.edu

"There are worse things to be than a bigot.  I'd rather keep company
with a bigot who lets me go my own way than a well-intentioned man
who presumes to know what is good for me."  --  Wendy Thrash