Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdcsu!herbie From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Dividing Line Message-ID: <1089@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 12:48:45 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1089 Posted: Fri Mar 8 12:48:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 07:43:42 EST References: <731@decwrl.UUCP> <745@amdcad.UUCP> <627@mhuxt.UUCP> <917@vax1.fluke.UUCP> <541@hou5g.UUCP> Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) Organization: U of Waterloo Lines: 24 Summary: In article <541@hou5g.UUCP> jdh@hou5g.UUCP (Julia Harper) writes: >I think the dividing line for boy/man and girl/woman is 18-20 >-- it takes time to get used to the new word for yourself. >I also think that at the same time men and women start referring >to their male friends as men, they should also start referring to >their female friends as women. this is interesting. how come then that almost all my female acquaintances say they are doing something "with the girls" regardless of age when they are going somewhere with exclusively female company? BTW, the vast majority of my female acquaintances are engineers and most of them are extremely sensitive to the term "girls" when men use it to refer to them but not when other women do except when it is obviously used condescendingly. the corresponding thing happens for "boys". Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!water!watdcsu!herbie CSNET: herbie%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: herbie%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa NETNORTH, BITNET, EARN: herbie@watdcs, herbie@watdcsu