Comments on: Thursday March 11, 2004

By: snowpeanut

snowpeanut — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:40:00 +0000

i agree that this could have to do more with age than anything really. political correctness (e.g. girls v women) would seem to be more of an american-specific thing and she may not be as aware of the implications of using said words. culturally, i can see that perhaps she might perceive american women tend to be more assertive and not as subservient.

By: Mallaidh

Mallaidh — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:18:00 +0000

I hope it doesn’t sound like I’m trivializing, because I’m really not. But at least she doesn’t call women GALS. That has to count for something, like at least there may be some hope for her. Once she starts saying “gals” it’s all over, in my opinion. Heh. Well, I guess I was being a bit funny. :-)

By: StephanieJ73

StephanieJ73 — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:04:00 +0000

I’ll bet it has more to do with age, and possibly personality. Just because all the girls she knows do something does not indicate that this is something that happens among all women. She sounds like she’s way too young to make such sweeping generalizations, especially since she probably hasn’t been exposed to that many differing personalitites yet.

Our teens and early twenties are ages for us to be about as self-centered as we get. A lot of us grow out of it as we get older, though some will stay just as self-centered because of their personalitites.

By: twiddle38

twiddle38 — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:03:00 +0000

Well, maybe the answer to that may be in your comment. Perhaps “girls demand” where “women discuss and compromise.” Just a thought. *shrug* ;-)

By: Scriveling

Scriveling — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:01:00 +0000

I just have to wonder...how many girls does she know? And when is she going to realize (or will she ever) that the number of girls she personally knows is not big enough to be a representative sample of women in general, and that not everybody is just like her and her friends?

Oy.

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