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From: dsy@psych.toronto.edu (Desiree Sy)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: "Woman" or "Girl"?
Message-ID: <1991May17.180807.20501@psych.toronto.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 18:08:07 GMT
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I can understand some of the ambivalent feelings young women have
in being called "women", since as a teenager I felt much the same
way (After all, being teenaged means you are sitting on the
border btwn adulthood and childhood).

However, have you *ever* heard similar thoughts being expressed
by young men who are referred to as "men" immediately upon 
entering the workforce? I haven't. 

I find this discrepancy (which I observe in myself, too) very
disturbing.

-desiree