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From: dnc@dartvax.UUCP (David Crespo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: re: women, men, boys, & girls
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Date: Sun, 8-Jan-84 11:07:33 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  8 11:07:33 1984
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i understand the statement about "a woman being someone my mother's age"
it is a perfectly freudian statement of the psychological feeling
around the initail impressions of the word woman. woman, firstly,
no matter how much i would desire it otherwise, is mother, then only
does my intellect and experience tell me to key in htat and look for the 
subtle changes that i expected to occur abouthte age of twenty in 
boys and girls to give them the "wholeness" characteristic of an adult, i.e. woman 
or man. It does not mean that at age fifty, only seventy yeayr olds are
women, though i willno doubt feel that younger women will be "younger",
assumming adirect correlation between age and wisdom. (which, as our 
current leadership indicates, is not, repeat, is not, neccessarily so.)
there is also the phenomenon of being old or young for one's age (pardon
the anachronism)...some people have "lived thorugh a lot" or are
"young", innocent. that is a matter too wondrous and complexly beautiful
to be described by one just entering the fray of life's ofering...
(gough, sputter)...
 dnc @ dartmouth.