Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!crs From: crs@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.women,net.music Subject: Re: Cyndi Lauper? Message-ID: <19164@lanl.ARPA> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 15:18:35 EST Article-I.D.: lanl.19164 Posted: Wed Jan 9 15:18:35 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 00:39:04 EST Sender: newsreader@lanl.ARPA Distribution: na Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 44 Sorry for the reposting but the article came through here with about the first half missing. I hope this try is more successful. Charlie ------ > Cyndi Lauper?________________________________________________________________ > . > . > . > The main message of the song, repeated over and over and over, is > "girls just want to have fun". If it said "girls want to have fun", that > would be okay with me (though I'd prefer that "women" be used instead of > "girls"), but the inclusion of the word "just" makes it offensive. > > What do you folks think? > <_Jym_> I don't know anything about the song -- in fact, I've never heard it. But, the offense taken at use of the word "just" intrigues me. I would never have interpreted the phrase as meaning "girls [sic]* never ever want to do anything but have fun" as Jym apparently does. It seems to me that the "just" construction used in the phrase is a common colloquial for (at least where I come from). A common example is the phrase "I just want to be left alone." I find it difficult to imagine that anyone would interpret that as meaning that "I never ever want *anything* except to be left alone." I'd interpret that colloquialism as "I'd like to be left alone for a while" or as "Don't bug me right now." Perhaps, because I've only seen the phrase out of context as posted, I'm not getting the full picture. Do others really find it offensive [in context, out of context]? Charlie ______ * Before the flames begin, be it known that I am treating "girls" as an incorrect spelling of "women" |-)