Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!jdh From: jdh@hou5g.UUCP (Julia Harper) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Dividing Line Message-ID: <542@hou5g.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 10:38:16 EST Article-I.D.: hou5g.542 Posted: Thu Mar 7 10:38:16 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 06:20:50 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 19 () More on woman/girl. Assuming (from previous article) the following: Age: 0-18 16-35? 30+ title: boy guy man title: girl ? woman I think the reason so many woman in the middle age group prefer woman to girl is because there is more to gain from the recognition of adulthood implied by "woman" than there is to lose from the implication of ugliness/decrepitness (or as some male put it, lack of sexual attractiveness). To put it another way, if I have to choose between ugly adult and cute/sexy child, my decision is absolutely ugly adult. -- Julia Harper [ihnp4,ariel]!hou5g!jdh