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From: jfh@browngr.UUCP (John F. Hughes)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Dividing Line
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Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 13:22:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 12 13:22:55 1985
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Reply-To: jfh@sluggo.UUCP (John (Spike) Hughes)
Organization: Brown University Computer Science
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Summary: 


   While I was teaching there, most of my undergraduate friends at Bryn Mawr
(where there is a strong feminist awareness) objected to the word 'lady';
they seemed to think that it had connotations of 'proper behavior' and
'femininity' that were based on male ideas of what women should be (read
'oppressed').
   I have used the word 'woman' to refer to females of my own age
ever since my freshman year in college. Following my Bryn Mawr friends'
example, I used 'girl' to refer to females still in high-school.
It was conventional, though, to refer to prospective students,
although still in high-school, as women.

  My BMC friends also recommended Susan Brownmiller's book 'Femininity'
to me as well.
   -jfh