Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!browngr!msw From: msw@browngr.UUCP (Mark Wachsler) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Male teases Message-ID: <1391@browngr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 01:23:02 EDT Article-I.D.: browngr.1391 Posted: Thu Oct 4 01:23:02 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 21:45:28 EDT References: pucc-h.1275, <1274@pucc-h>, <345@pucc-k> <346@pucc-k> Lines: 30 [crunch, chomp] > Umm...could I bring up a small semantics problem in this context? > > There is a common term for a female tease; what, then, shall we >call a male tease? > > Yours for better euphemisms, Strangely enough, I seem to remember having a discussion about this a couple of weeks ago. I can't remember why, but whoever it was that I was talking to was pointing out that the abbreviation "CT" could also be applied to a male, simply by using the appropriate "C". Like "MOTOS", this and unlike the two different things this abbreviation can stand for, "CT" is gender-neutral. The only bad thing one can say about it is that it is vulgar; however, it is equally vulgar for each sex, so no one should feel overly offended by it (I would assume). Of course one could just as easily say "tease", but "CT" brings out more emotions, and makes one feel much worse about the situation (I'm not sure if that's good or bad). This all reminds me of that old joke: "What do you call a female peacock?" Since this isn't rotated, I won't give the answer, but I'm sure you can figure it out. ---------------- And it's a teenage sadness everyone has got to face, Mark Wachsler In between each madness that you know you can't erase. browngr!msw P.S. I apologize for putting those lyrics; they just happened to be going through my head. No, I'm really OK. Really! :-)