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From: jackson@curium.DEC (Seth Jackson)
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Subject: Yep, one more article about girls and women
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Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 13:24:56 EST
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> L S Chabot
> If "boy" or "girl" is used when referring to your work, the speaker is stating
> that  you're not mature enough to have your work taken seriously. A comment
> overheard about an engineer at some other company when speaking about the lack
> of merit in her technical expertise: "She's only a twenty-five year-old girl!"
> Wouldn't some of you get a little annoyed to hear yourself referred to as a
> boy or a girl in reference to your competence?

Yes, I probably would. However, the "feminists" whom I have met don't
generally restrict their flaming to the above (rare) usage of "girl".
I tend to use the word "girl" to refer to any female with whom I would
socialize. For males, the word I usually use is "guy". Sometimes I 
use "man" or "woman", but these words (to me) generally connote either
an older person, someone in a position of authority, or a reference to
a person in a business/professional setting.

If people get upset with this common, non-derogatory use of these 
words, then I suspect it's really something else that's bothering 
them. Aren't there more important things to be worrying about?

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"We used to play for silver, now we play for life..."
				
					Seth Jackson