Women only: Regarding the use of the term 'girls' to describe women.

[DutchLiberal]

193. I seriously think some posters have disconnected their theoretical views from the real world.

Your bombastic language undoubtedly fits in perfectly in a Gender Studies class or a feminist textbook, but what I'm trying to get at, is that it's pretty useless in the real world, because the vast majority of people, male and female, simply don't perceive it that way. Most people don't see hidden agendas behind everyday words like 'girl'. Because mostly, they're not there. Life generally tends to be much simpler than what theorists cook up during their philosophizing.

The discussion about the word 'girl' has been done before, in Help & Meta. I was told there by another member that I was devaluing and belittling my female co-workers and supervisor by referring to them as 'girls'. I showed that thread to my co-workers and my supervisor. They laughed their asses off at something they perceived as ridiculously far-fetched and over-the-top.

If you or anybody else don't like to be called 'girls', I won't call you that. It's as simple as that. But don't tell me I cannot use that word because it IS 'diminishing' or 'devaluing' etc. like that's a fact. No, that's an opinion and, from my experience with women of all ages, a minority opinion.