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From: sebb@pyuxss.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: girls - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 5-Dec-83 12:49:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  5 12:49:31 1983
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	I went to a very small women's college. It is not
well known. If a person talking to me did happen to know of
Wells they knew of it as a "girl's school." A girl's school
is a prep school. It is not the same thing as a women's college.
It usually took me a while to get people to call Wells a women's
college. I was very insulted by the degradation of a fine in-
stitution of higher learning and my alma mater.  I'm sure
that before some of the men's colleges went co-ed(Hamilton,
Harvard) they were not called "boy's schools." Calling women
girls is degrading in my opinion and I do not tolerate it.
I don't mind being called a 'gal'(I have a very good friend
from Texas who refers to most of his women friends this way)
because I look upon it as the female equivalent of guy. But
girl goes with boy and they both mean children to me. Men don't
like being called boys(how would you like it if you were a male
secretery and your female boss refered to you as her "boy"???),
and women don't like being called girls.
			Sharon Badian