Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!cheryl From: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: When are you a man/woman? Message-ID: <552@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 23:45:39 EDT Article-I.D.: lasspvax.552 Posted: Tue Sep 24 23:45:39 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 02:58:20 EDT References: <305@decwrl.UUCP> <43800006@uiucuxc> <685@cornell.UUCP> Reply-To: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart) Organization: LASSP, Cornell University Lines: 35 In article <685@cornell.UUCP> rance@cornell.UUCP (Rance Cleaveland) writes: >> >> Speaking as a 24 year old 'female', I too object to being called a >> 'girl'. On the other hand, 'woman' sounds like I'm a 45 year old >> woman. But since no alternative exits, I guess I'll have to get used >> to it. Does anyone object to being called a lady? (I kind of like >> that). Another question: When does one feel like he/she should be >> called man/woman? > >Maybe other people don't have this impression, but it seems to me that >in society's eyes you switch from being a "guy/girl" to a "man/woman" >when you get married. At least, I think that's the traditional usage. > Married, schmarried -- I say it's spinach: Eat enough spinach and you'll be a man. Eat a watermelon seed, and you'll be a woman. (That's really how it happens. Mommy ate a watermelon seed, then came baby Joey. That's what Daddy told me, and he's always right.) Look, when I left home for college, my younger sister was a knock-kneed, skinny flatchested fourteen year old GIRL. One time I came home, and realized that she had grown into a WOMAN. Breasts are generally a dead giveaway. If you are unsure of the morphology and location of these items on the feminine physique...well, my best of luck to you when you get married! P.S. The only time I was really offended by nomenclature was when a female college registrar (over forty -- can't trust 'em) referred to an award-winning valedectorian senior graduating from the engineering college at University of Illinois at Urbana as a "PRETTY LITTLE CO-ED" But then, this registrar was clearly a stupid old woman. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com