Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ada-uts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!yale!ada-uts!richw From: richw@ada-uts.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Gal-Lady-... Dead Horse Message-ID: <20800017@ada-uts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 10:22:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ada-uts.20800017 Posted: Thu Oct 10 10:22:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Oct-85 06:12:16 EDT Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #N:ada-uts:20800017:000:665 Nf-From: ada-uts!richw Oct 10 10:22:00 1985 >>> On the one hand we have the group who (rightfully) contend that to say >>> "C'mon guys and women, lets go have a beer" is absurd in the extreme. >>> >>> On the other, is the group who (equally rightfully) insist that it is >>> rude, to say nothing of incorrect, to call a woman a girl, especially >>> if she is offended by it. There's also a group debating the meaning of "lady"; nevertheless... >>> Aren't we beating a dead horse? ---- Charlie Sorsby YES! This sums it up perfectly. As the poster of the original question ("Guys is to as Men is to Women"), I ask to say something new or nothing at all. PLEASE ! ---- Rich Wagner