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From: dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: more on semantics
Message-ID: <1071@rocksvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 16:40:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 28 16:40:58 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 29-Mar-85 01:34:06 EST
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Reply-To: dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng)
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In article <1333@decwrl.UUCP> jackson@curium.DEC (Seth Jackson) writes:
>Oh, I get it, because you overreact to an innocent word, that makes me
>self-centered. Thanks for the innovative viewpoint. 

It's all a matter of viewpoint.  You consider it to be an innocent word,
but some (many) of the people that you describe this term disagree.
You might want to consider for a moment whether they might have more
experience with the different connotations that the term has when used by  
different people.  

The label 'girl' has become to many people a symbol of the attitude that
many men still towards women, mainly that they are inferior and should
stay home and make babies (yes, I exaggerate a bit).  If you do not believe
that many men still hold this view, ask some of the women that you know.
I'm continuly amazed at the the things that they tell me.

/Don
-- 

"Ah yeees, when the ships were wood, and the men were steel."

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