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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Usage: 'woman' vs. 'girl'
Message-ID: <666@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 17:29:58 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.666
Posted: Tue Apr  2 17:29:58 1985
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Summary: It depends on how she acts.

Expires:

Quoted from <936@utcsri.UUCP> ["Usage of Women vs. Girls"], by west@utcsri.UUCProm...
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|     Can you guess what logic dictates the considerate male should use?
| 
| Notice that this has no political implications.  It is just cold,
| hard logic.  Now it is up to the common courtesy of the individual male
| to determine what he uses.  
| 
|   Nice and simple, no?

Maybe.  I won't try to say that I'm considerate (or inconsiderate); I can't
make that decision about myself.  But my "formula" is this:

If she acts like a bubblehead, she's a "girl".  Otherwise, she's a "woman".
I define a "bubblehead" as a female (to escape "woman"/"girl" here, not as a
judgement) who giggles excessively, constantly leans on (in some sense) any
male in the area, doesn't show "common sense", etc.

It is a pity that the "American Way" still creates bubbleheads.  A BIG pity;
I don't like that kind of woman.

--bsa
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