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Subject:Re: Response to Documentation Girls Flaming From:Toni Williams TPG/SG <towilliams -at- PROCYONGROUP -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Aug 1998 10:22:44 -0700
Except from what she went on to say in the post you partially quoted was
that they refer to themselves as Word Processors. Therefore, I think
there is sufficient reason to think that they are NOT OK with it.
TW
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> 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
>
>
>