Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Kegel) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: "Woman" or "Girl"? Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 20:50:49 GMT Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL Lines: 16 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu dsy@psych.toronto.edu (Desiree Sy) writes: >I can understand some of the ambivalent feelings young women have >in being called "women"... >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. When I entered the workforce a few years ago, I did feel ambivilent about being called 'man' rather than 'teenager' or 'young man' ('boy' had fallen by the wayside by high school). The feeling is minor, however, to the feeling I get when I compare my looks at 28 with my looks at 21 :-) - Dan Kegel (dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov)