Re: [CR]Those Fenders again!!

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From: "Bob Reid" <robertrreid@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [CR]Those Fenders again!!
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:22:32 +0000
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Jerry wrote ;

If riding like a girl means, for example, riding like Beryl Burton, I think we would all wish we could do that.

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I started this topic off, and finally it's it's come back to the original quote. I wrote "..Mudguards were for old folks three-speeds and you were classified as being either a sissy or a girl"

Which of course I'm happy to stand by. Anyone this side of the pond, knows exactly what the expression means. I have no intention to even start to explain it, as that'll just cause even more unwanted furory. Suffice to say the expression "girl" in reference to a guy, is neither demeaning or for that matter sexist, ageist, racist or any other PC ist you can think of wether it's 1965 or 2005... It's as simple an expression as calling someone pre-teens a "Kid" a purely comparitive term - nothing more, nothing less, and nothing to be read into or to get anal over.

Bob Reid Stonehaven Scotland

http://www.flying.scot.co.uk