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From: ajf@pyuxa.UUCP (A Figura)
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Subject: Re: Re: Yet another new reader. Keywd: GIRLS
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Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 12:53:57 EST
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Chris Kay@sunybcs.UUCP seems confused. He writes:

> > Phil Ngai writes:
> > > Picking up girls, is that like when you visit someone and they
> > > have this cute 9 month old daughter and you want to hold her so
> > > you go over and "pick up a girl"?
> > 
> >     Actually, Phil, I think the phrase is more commonly used for
> > the attempted activities of 15 to 18 year old boys.
> 
> I did say that I am a graduate CS major.  Now, unless I am some
> kind of Boy-wonder, that would make me 22-24.  I am 24.
          ^^^
Hmmm - interesting - this 24 year old male doesn't like to be called a boy.
Thats understandable. Lets see what else Chris has to say...

> To me, the word "woman" connotes a person who is 5 - 7 years
> older than me.  I DON'T know why; it just does.

So, a 24 year old male is not a boy. But according to Chris, a woman
up to the age of approximately 30 years old is still a girl. Yeah, that
sure makes perfect sense to me!

> >     Just where is the dividing line anyway?
> I just don't know.

Easy (?) to answer - do you call your males friends "boys"? Probably
not, since you don't consider yourself, at 24, to be a boy. Well then,
is the cutoff between "boys" and "men" also equal to your age + 5?
Since you probably will answer "no" to this question as well, why have a
different definition or a different set of values for females? 

Al Figura @ Bellcore
"Happiness is a warm Aardvark!"