Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/06

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Tim Atherton and his on-list insults - was RE: M3 and airport security
From: Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:02:24 -0500

It seems that men are the ones who most often take offense. I like the 
idea of men and women using coded language like that when referring to 
each other--assuming, of course, there is no real malice.

Allan


On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 03:15 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:
> Well, I'm the father of a daughter. But one doesn't have to be a 
> feminist
> (which I assume you take to be a pejorative label) to react to somethat
> that's about 30 years out of date in terms of generally acceptable 
> useage.
> And was pretty ridiculous even 30 years ago, given that I've never 
> noticed
> that males are any less gossip prone than females - it's just that the
> subject of the gossip may differ. ;-)

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