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From: seifert@mako.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: RE2:gender terms
Message-ID: <672@mako.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 10:29:57 EST
Article-I.D.: mako.672
Posted: Fri Mar 29 10:29:57 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 31-Mar-85 04:10:48 EST
References: <1081@ihuxe.UUCP> <587@ahutb.UUCP>
Reply-To: seifert@mako.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
Lines: 29
Keywords: maturity or lack thereof
Summary: pot calls the kettle black

In article <587@ahutb.UUCP> seb@ahutb.UUCP (s.e.badian) writes:

> I think I'm going to throw up. Just because Websters says it's so
> doesn't make it right!! If you repeatedly referred to me as
> a girl, I'd knock your lights out!

> Girls are perceived as too young and immature to take care of them-
> selves, just like boys.

Ah, so you are going to prove that you're mature by going around
knocking people's lights out?

> Some man just can't seem to see why the woman/girl issue is important.
> There are women who can't see it either. I only wish there was some
> way to show them how I and many others feel.

I would think that the mature and womanly art of violence would
be quite sufficient to get your point across.

I haven't hit anyone in about fifteen years, guess I've got some catching
up to do before I can consider myself a *real* feminist.  Could
someone tell me a good place to get a set of brass knuckles?


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