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.