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From: dnc@dartvax.UUCP (David Crespo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: girls - (nf)
Message-ID: <487@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Dec-83 10:57:34 EST
Article-I.D.: dartvax.487
Posted: Wed Dec  7 10:57:34 1983
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      I always find that it is difficult to refer to women as
a group as girls, though I can't refer to myself as a man without shuddering.
So I7m a boy, and you're women. But, some ladies over 18 are hardly women.
To me there is a definite connotation in hte term as being a good match
for a "man", i.e. holding an equal share of powers (psychic and political).
I think usage varies much more widely, some women are turned off by the 
word woma/en since it seems to herald to eve and second-class(third, fourth,
fifth, sixth, behind the journalists.) citizenry. THey "solved" this 
problem by inventing "wimmin, woemen, wome, wowmen, ladies," and i'm
sure a host of others (a house without a wome, is a day without funshine)
(huhn?) ....
gals
lasses, lassies (not to be collared)
misses, ms-es, missies, mams and mamsies
chicks, girlchicks,
hens,
sugarlips (oops, I'm sorry honey)
skirt (let's evade the issue)
then there's name calling (eve delilah you're such a thatcher)
 
damsels, dames, damns
gals galls
girls gulls
 fems, (i like the derivative, fembot, for a mindless Marylin, and other
         things. )
 
for the males:
guy
chap
joe
 (dear dear)
boychick (definetely a jewish term)
mister(missed her) 
fella, feller,fellow
buddy 
my man, my right hand man, my left hand man, my man (sigh...)
bloke 
hims (hymns)
 
please submit others, I'm very interested in this ... 
 
and also the subject of maledicta, abusive slang ...what they cant stand
about each other...
senhor, senhorita
hombre, homo (with caution) 
(about themselves)
 
happy valentines day.
dnc @ dc