Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekred.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!tektronix!tekred!richa From: richa@tekred.UUCP (Rich Amber ) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Girl/Woman - responsibility for what others think Message-ID: <137@tekred.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 11:48:55 EDT Article-I.D.: tekred.137 Posted: Mon Oct 1 11:48:55 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 03:16:51 EDT References: <9198@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Redmond OR Lines: 15 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?