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From: walsh@ihuxi.UUCP (B. Walsh)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: girls - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 1-Dec-83 09:45:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  1 09:45:03 1983
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Are the strange looks you're getting from women, men or both? I'm
surprised that women would think it strange to be called 'women' rather
than 'girls'. I think the term girls is insulting to a woman over 18
years of age. Same goes for boys vs. men. I think, however, the term
'girls' has been so ingrained in people to describe groups of women
that it may sound strange, but I think that that should and probably
is changing. Think of the strange looks you'd get if you were to address
a group of men as 'boys'!

All adult women I know describe their female friends as 'girlfriends', 
but all adult men I know NEVER describe male friends as 'boyfriends'.
That's another interesting difference in our use of language.

B. Walsh