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To: SeekAndFind
“Get the girl to check the numbers,” a computer-skeptical John Glenn had insisted in the days before the launch.

"The girl" always bugged me...and I was born in 1951. It was so demeaning to me. Or "I'll have my girl do it."

What an amazing woman. I look forward to watching the movie. It's one of the very few things Obumbler did right.

13 posted on 02/24/2020 10:01:42 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I took it as a form of respect. Everyone knew who Glenn was wanting to check the numbers.


25 posted on 02/25/2020 4:31:42 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“’The girl’ always bugged me..”

I’m a northerner transplanted in the south, and I always feel creepy when people call me “Miss ____”. To me it sounds like they feel subservient to me in some way. Now I realize it’s a term of respect for older ladies — but it still kind of bugs me.


46 posted on 02/25/2020 8:42:48 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“I look forward to watching the movie.”

The movie was excellent. I was skeptical at first, as DH was in missile defense his entire career and there were many cases when minorities were hired over better-qualified people to bump up the quotas. Work suffered. This movie was nothing like this. The ladies were hired because they were geniuses; quotas were not a “thing” then.


47 posted on 02/25/2020 8:45:51 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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