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From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: girls - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 09:06:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  2 09:06:57 1983
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Ladies, gentlemen, persons, boys, girls, men, women,
AI projects, guys, gals, babes, old geezers, and anyone
else that reads this newsgroup,

Why all the fuss over what people call you?  What counts is how they
mean it.  If a friend of mine walks in the office and says, "Hey,
wierdo, doing anything for lunch?" I wouldn't take it as an insult,
but as a compliment.  A complement that (s)he likes me and wants
to have lunch together.  If a MOTOS calls me "babe", I don't assume
that she has mistaken me for a two-month-old infant.  If I am
refered to as "boy", I don't automatically take it as an insult.
If someone is actually insulting me, they generally use somewhat
stronger language than "boy".  If I refer to an adult female human
as "girl", it's not meant as an insult, and not because I didn't
notice that she is past puberty. (It's usually *quite* obvious.)

		Snoopy ("Here's the WW1 flying ace in no-man's land.")

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