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From: ben@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Ben Dessau)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Girls, girls, girls
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Date: 10 Oct 90 20:23:21 GMT
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	I'm a 21 year old (male) student. I don't want my speach to
offend anyone, and would be perfectly willing to use the word "woman"
instead of "girl", but I have difficulty in thinking of most of my
female friends of a similar age to myself as "women". I don't think of
a male as a "man" unless they are at least 30 and have a position of
responsibility over me. The word "woman" to me implies the same
age/superiority, and I suppose "girl" does the opposite. I call most
males of my age "guys" which has no such connotations - is there a
similar word for females? - most I can think of are even worse than
"girl".

-Ben