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To: jpmac who wrote (10160)	4/23/1998 11:57:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

In Junior High, when the glory that is armpit hair starts appearing, the question which burns in a young man's mind is ?Quien es mas macho? So one of the worst insults within this fledgling fraternity was to receive the scathing classification of femininity. Especially before/after gym class, when a lot of furtive comparison takes place. "You are such a woman, Mark." Take that pejorative to the next level, and you end up with a synonym for "cat". Uhm.

To: jpmac who wrote (10160)	4/23/1998 12:16:00 PM
From: BlueCrab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Well, jp, let me tell ya - first, did you ever spend any time in a high-school boys' locker room? Didn't think so. It was a different dimension, in the best of Serling tradition, and one of the most powerfully derogatory epithets known in taht dimension was the term "pussy", as in the female genitalia. Probably because at that time many of the listeners didn't know the medically-correct terminology. Anyway, when we were with girls, and wanted to down another guy (it was never used about girls, at least not in taht sense), the p-word was somehow deemed less than acceptable and we said (as a thinly-disguised substitute) "wuss". I can remember my high-school steady asking me, the first time she heard it, what it meant...