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Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: girls/women
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Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 08:31:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 13 08:31:14 1983
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I guess I don't mind whether my friends call me a woman or a girl
or a guy or whatever (when I'm unsure of what to say--and a lot of
times I'm not sure whether to use girl or woman or what--I go with
the circumlocution "people of the female type", which is a nice light
touch, I think).  But I do get offended when someone in a meeting
says he'll "get his girl on it" (or even if he's been re-educated
to say "gal").  He's not meaning to give offense and you probably
couldn't even convince him that his attitude is offensive.  I guess
that I see the girl/woman issue as a symptom of the deeper problem
and that all the flak about it just distracts from the real
problem, and I hope I have enough sense to figure out fairly
quickly just how annoyed to get at any given instance of the word
"girl".
                            p. carstensen