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Subject: Re: girls - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 03:50:08 EST
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orstcs!nathan    Nov 26 15:24:00 1983

Regarding "girls" as pejorative:

I am a member of the local Oregon State University chapter of
the Society of Women Engineers chapter; I do the newsletter.
I have noticed that other members invariably refer to female
students as "girls", and I seem to get strange looks when
I say "women" in similar contexts.  In other organizations,
male students are invariable called "men".

Is it that the women here don't feel grown-up, or is it that
they are less pretentious than the men?  I have tried asking
and have not yet received a coherent reply.

To forestall questions about what I, a man, am doing in the
Society of Women Engineers: "no comment".

	Nathan C. Myers