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Subject:Re: Response to Documentation Girls Flaming From:John Posada <john -at- TDANDW -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:01:55 -0400
Sorry, Melissa...I'm with you.
These are the same people that feel that "best boy" would be denigrating
to those in the movie-making field...even when it's accepted, nobody who
is called it minds, and everyone in that particular environment knows it
to be exactly what it is.
If everyone involved is OK with it, knock yourself out. I've said before
that this PC thing can get carried away.
>
> >>> Melissa Conniff <mconniff -at- CSC -dot- COM> 08/11 10:26 AM >>>
> Gang,
>
> I've asked an honest question and the majority of responses have been
> to flame me
> for using the term "girls". Get a life folks! It was not meant in a
> degrading
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