Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Yet another new reader. Keywd: GIRLS Message-ID: <152@unc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 14:15:28 EST Article-I.D.: unc.152 Posted: Sun Mar 3 14:15:28 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 02:44:57 EST References:Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 32 Summary: In article chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot) writes: >Yes, "Keyword: GIRLS" is correct. Suggest you try looking for women to date, >not girls. Very few girls or boys attend college, however, men and women >attend in droves. > >Yes, I'm serious. It's a far healthier attitude to know you're looking for >adult companionship and to refer it as such. > >If, however, you're a boy and really do only want a girl, then, well, times is >hard: maybe you should try acting older than you are, thereby making yourself >attractive to women. > >And "picking up girls", the activity, that is, is probably illegal in many >states, unless you mean arriving at their parents' house and escorting their >underage daughters with their parents permission. > The word "girl" has at least two meanings. It can refer to any prepubescent female. Also, it is often used to describe any adult female who is still young enough to be sexually attractive. In the second context, the word "girl" is used to avoid the negative connotations often associated with the word "woman" (one such negative connotation is a middle-age spread--check out who shops the "women's sizes" at Sears). Feminists insist on restricting the word "girl" to the first meaning. I recommend that we humor them when posting to this network, to avoid unnecessary flames. Frank Silbermann University of North Carolina