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From: richa@tekred.UUCP (Rich Amber )
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Girl/Woman - responsibility for what others think
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Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 11:48:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  1 11:48:55 1984
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A friend (female) of mine recently picked up on all this and
will no longer allow herself to be called "girl."  This is all
right with me... I'll call her whatever she likes, but I also
tried to point out to her that it had a certain sense of "illogic"
to it.  She refers to her SO as her "boyfriend."  I queeried if
she was, therefore, his "girlfriend?"  "Of course," was her reply.
"But if you are not a girl, you cannot be his girlfriend. You must
then be his woman-friend."  "That doesn't sound very close," she
said, "I like `girlfriend' better."   Hmmmmm
 
Girlfriend and woman-friend, boyfriend and man-friend do not
seem to carry the same meanings, so how do these fit in with the
demands to be called by some seemingly more adult name?  Most of
the people who are not on this net will not even understand the
terms made up here (MOTOS, SO, etc).  Now what, Sherlock?