Re: Response to Documentation Girls Flaming

[Roy Anderson <royanderson -at- IBM -dot- NET>]

<<...imperialistic "lady">>???

When did "lady" and "ladies" become politically incorrect, Comrade Porrello?
(Smile.) My grandmother, mother, sisters, and aunts are ladies and darn proud
of the term. If you called them "imperialistic" or "onerous" to their faces,
they would box your ears. (Smile.)

I, for one, mourn the apparent passing of "women" in favor of today's more
biologically-accurate "female". Somehow, I don't think the movie PRETTY
WOMAN would have been quite as enchanting had it been entitled PRETTY FEMALE.

When I become president, it will be difficult to reconcile opening speeches
to you, my beloved fellow Americans, by saying "Good evening, females and
males." Yikes!

Girls, no; ladies, yes.

Porrello, Leonard wrote:
>
> What gets me is that though many people fly off the handle at "girl or "boy"
> (rightfully, perhaps, unless we are speaking of the pre-pubescent), no one
> seems bothered by the imperialistic "lady" or "gentleman". In a democratic
> society, those seem equally onerous.
>
> Leonard Porrello
> Compaq, Telecom Division
> Pubs, Omaha
> 402.384.7390

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