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From: san@peora.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: more on semantics
Message-ID: <780@peora.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 15:12:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  3 15:12:18 1985
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Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl.
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> Look, regardless of whether or not the word ``girl'' is offensive
>
> How about some new rules. If you are offended by what somebody calls you,
> tell them. Politely. ie don't flame them into a cinder, it will only get them
> angry and defensive. Then you can work it out from there. If you want to
> do ``he's sexist/she's neurotic'' wars, you can. If you want to avoid people
> who care about what they are called, you can. If you want to avoid people
> who won't address you as you like, you can. If you want to ignore the whole
> issue, you can do that as well.
> 
> Personally, I worry about people whose self-esteem has reached such a low
> that they are seriously inconvenienced by the form of address
> 
> Laura Creighton
> utzoo!laura

	The last few days, I have very happily noticed a gradual decline
in the "semantics war" and I strongly feel that it is now high time that
we closed chapter on this issue and look for some new pastures to argue
upon.

	The above message from Laura beautifully sums up what I wanted to
say all along and I have included it here for some unfortunate, sensitive,
etc etc soul who missed it earlier. Also let's not argue about men vs boys,
since it comes right at the tail end of the current girl-women debate
and is therefore highly unfair towards the rest of the net community whose
feathers don't get ruffled when they are called girls/boys.

For those stubborn people who still wish to make an issue of the "semantics"
I shall very gleefully add that you deserve to be called GIRLS or BOYS
for it rightly represents your insecure/childish nature.

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