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From: jdh@hou5g.UUCP (Julia Harper)
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Subject: Dividing Line
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 10:38:16 EST
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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
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