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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
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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....

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