From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!megatest!ubvax!paulina
Newsgroups: net.women
Title: Re: a compliment (?)
Article-I.D.: ubvax.119
Posted: Thu Feb 17 16:00:54 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 01:44:09 1983
References: burdvax.567



I, too, have often been 'one of the guys'. I generally take this as 
meaning that the men I associate with are so comfortable with me as
a person that they are not constantly thinking of me as a 'woman'.

However, there have been contexts in which I have been VERY insulted
by similar comments. For example, when I was in college a (male) friend
of my parents was talking about how he, as an employer, preferred
to hire women for dull, repetive jobs because their minds were better
suited for that type of task. He felt that women didn't need to have
jobs which were as interesting. When I expressed my extreme frustration
over my summer job (in a local bucket factory), he said :

	but you are different. you have the mind of a man.

It still makes me mad to think about it.