Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!tron From: tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Dividing Line Message-ID: <917@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 19:04:56 EST Article-I.D.: vax1.917 Posted: Fri Mar 1 19:04:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 05:11:53 EST References: <731@decwrl.UUCP> <745@amdcad.UUCP> <627@mhuxt.UUCP> Reply-To: tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee) Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 23 >possibility that he actually *is* looking for a girl? > Just where is the dividing line anyway? Yeah! Where is the dividing line? I have heard several feminists react to use of "girls" by asking if everyone was under 13 but I think that is a little young to be a woman. My opinion is that girls and boys progress into being women and men at about the same time. I feel it must have something to do with emotional maturity (we really don't give a damn when a person started shaving or menstruating, do we?). Therefore I don't, in general, have any problems with persons 19 or 20 years old being called boys or girls. However it only seems fair to refer to a person in the manner that they prefer, and many youngsters don't yet realize how much they will learn, so they think that are mature adults. What is the answer? (maybe it's not that important afterall) Peter B