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From: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: When are you a man/woman?
Message-ID: <552@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 23:45:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 23:45:39 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 02:58:20 EDT
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Reply-To: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
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In article <685@cornell.UUCP> rance@cornell.UUCP (Rance Cleaveland) writes:
>> 
>>   Speaking as a 24 year old 'female',  I too object to being called a
>>   'girl'.  On the other hand, 'woman' sounds like I'm a 45 year old
>>   woman.  But since no alternative exits, I guess I'll have to get used
>>   to it.  Does anyone object to being called a lady?  (I kind of like
>>   that).    Another question:  When does one feel like he/she should be
>>   called man/woman?
>
>Maybe other people don't have this impression, but it seems to me that
>in society's eyes you switch from being a "guy/girl" to a "man/woman"
>when you get married.  At least, I think that's the traditional usage.
>

Married, schmarried -- I say it's spinach:  Eat enough spinach and
you'll be a man.  Eat a watermelon seed, and you'll be a woman.
(That's really how it happens.  Mommy ate a watermelon seed, then
came baby Joey.  That's what Daddy told me, and he's always right.)

Look, when I left home for college, my younger sister was a knock-kneed,
skinny flatchested fourteen year old GIRL.  One time I came home, and 
realized that she had grown into a WOMAN.  Breasts are generally a dead
giveaway.  If you are unsure of the morphology and location of these
items on the feminine physique...well, my best of luck to you when you
get married!

P.S.  The only time I was really offended by nomenclature was when
      a female college registrar (over forty -- can't trust 'em)
      referred to an award-winning valedectorian senior graduating
      from the engineering college at University of Illinois at
      Urbana as a 

          "PRETTY LITTLE CO-ED"

      But then, this registrar was clearly a stupid old woman.