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Subject:Re: Response to Documentation Girls Flaming From:Toni Williams TPG/SG <towilliams -at- PROCYONGROUP -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:58:49 -0700
Hear, hear. I for one will always be pleased to be called a woman and it
honors my mother if I am called a lady.
Toni
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Anderson [SMTP:royanderson -at- IBM -dot- NET]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 9:36 AM
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<<<...imperialistic "lady">>???
<When did "lady" and "ladies" become politically incorrect,
Comrade Porrello?
> (Smile.) <snip>
>
>I, for one, mourn the apparent passing of "women" in favor of
today's more
> biologically-accurate "female". <snip>
>
<snip some more>
