At the risk of sounding like a politically correct pain in the neck (which I am,
by the way :-), could you not write things like this:
Peter French wrote:
> I like the 7 pound/hour girls someone mentioned the other day - send them,
> to Australia when you are finished :-))
>
> Peter French
> Melbourne, Australia
Sorry, Peter, but it really gets me to see things like that. A) they might be
'boys' or even grown men and women (yes, some grown women do work rather than
staying at home) B) I find it offensive, as a grown woman, to be referred to as
a 'girl' (and it does happen more often than I'd like, inspite of a very
respectable doctorate, a research fellowship and the appearance of some white
hair :). I am sure other do too.
Again, please don't take it personally, but I just couldn't keep quiet.
Alessandra
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