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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Girls, girls, girls
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Date: 11 Oct 90 17:31:09 GMT
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ben@cs.warwick.ac.UK (Ben Dessau) writes:
>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".

I like to use the word "folks" when addressing a group in an informal and
slightly joking way, like "hello folks" where some would say "hello guys".  I
find this better than making a gender distinction, especially since you don't
want to exclude either gender from any group.

ajr