----- Original Message -----
From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Gender (was: Homosexuality and gender identity)
> >You girls?! ;)))) (or "You dolls", as I've seen quite often the
expression
> >"guys and dolls" in the spam I receive on my hotmail address ;))) )
>
> Years ago, I found it imprudent to use gendered terms like "guys" re:
mixed
> groups or all female groups due to the (not fully unfounded) vehement
> feminist response. Which is why I stick to "y'all" or "you" or "they".
> Because of similar feminist response, I mentally place "girls" or "girlz"
> in a category similar to (but less socially locked than) forms such as
> "faggot" and "nigga". Being gay, were I to say "faggot" it'd be
potentially
> less volatile than a straight man saying it; similarly with a woman saying
> "girls".
>
Over here, saying "faggot" is fairly uncontroversial, as it means a bundle
of sticks.