Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!roy From: roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy J. Mongiovi) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: On the Interpretation of "girl" Message-ID: <235@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Sep-84 15:28:10 EDT Article-I.D.: gitpyr.235 Posted: Sun Sep 23 15:28:10 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 04:01:06 EDT References: <212@gitpyr.UUCP> <1216@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Lines: 14 > Would you call a Black man a "boy"? Would you understand why he > might object? Can you generalize from this example? Hint: it has to > do with the distribution of power and privilege. Well, now. I'm afraid I'd call him whatever I'd call a white man (or yellow or olive or red) in the same circumstances.... How about you? -- Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332 Phone: (404) 894-6163, (404) 894-4660 [messages] ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!roy ...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!gitpyr!roy