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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: \"Guys\" is to \"<?>\" as ...
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 16:45:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 16:45:55 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.

	I would suspect that if you were black and over 21 you would seriously
resent being called "boy". Just such locution was used to keep blacks "in
their place" and many women feel that calling adult women "girls" achieves
the same effect. It implies that we are not mature adult humans.

-- 
jcpatilla

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