Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!dgp.toronto.edu!doc From: doc@dgp.toronto.edu (Blaine Price) Newsgroups: ont.singles Subject: Re: call to vote. (was Re: BIMS, TROLLIPS, BABES : Women of Our Time) Message-ID: <1990Mar1.103653.1031@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Date: 1 Mar 90 15:36:53 GMT References: <5093.25e9b314@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1990Feb27.002117.18215@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1990Mar1.035422.16302@robohack.UUCP> Distribution: ont Lines: 13 I'll not claim that my own personal vast range of experience (:-) is representative of current male thinking with respect to vocabulary describing women, but the only way in which I have heard "chick" used is in a denigrating manner (excluding all of those "quality" American Television shows from the early to mid 70s). Did someone mention something about gender differences in flirting behaviour in an earlier posting? This sounds like a much more interesting topic....from a purely anthropological point of view, of course! :-) Comments? _Blaine