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From: grass@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: When are you a man/woman/lady ?
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 09:57:00 EDT
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It seems to me that most of the time I hear someone called "lady", it has very
little to do with her good manners.  Mostly it's in the context:
	"Lady, you can't park there"
	"This bus don't go there, lady"
	
(Read these with a bit of a whine, or lots of exasperation).

"Lady" is even used pejoratively as in "lady doctor", "lady lawyer", etc. 

It's these common uses that make me wince when I get called "lady".

	- Judy Grass,  University of Illinois - Urbana
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