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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: \"Guys\" is to \"<?>\" as ...
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 10:57:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 10:57:49 1985
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> From: dyer@tau.DEC

> As usual, the best guide to use is the Golden Rule.  If you're a "guy-
> aged male," you'd most likely prefer to be referred to as a "man," not as a
> "boy."  When you take that into consideration, the choice between "girl" and
> "woman" is an easy one.

Well, I don't mind being called a "boy", and no reasonable girl I have
met objects to being called a "girl".  In my opinion, anyone who objects
to being called a boy or a girl is pretty inane.

(This is as opposed to these words being used as a form of address:
"Girl, fetch me a cup of coffee" is pretty objectionable, but so is
"Woman, fetch me a cup of coffee".)

				-Doug Alan
				  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)