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From: pc@hplabsb.UUCP (Patricia Collins)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: M'lady vs. Ms., etc.
Message-ID: <2231@hplabsb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 12:12:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 20 12:12:17 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Apr-84 08:41:23 EST
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Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
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	The social machine grinds wearily, wearing out parts which do
	not fit together well.  The lubricant may protect some of the
	gears, enabling them to turn faster, while other gears (not
	receiving comparable consideration) are worn down all the more
	quickly by the superficial solution.


	Tagging people with labels (Ms, Dr, Gentleman, ...) may make
	some people more comfortable, so by all means if you want
	to make those people feel better, label them.  For others,
	the label is more like sand than a lubricant: it irritates
	and wears them down.

						Patricia Collins
						hplabs