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

[FedUpWithIt All]

334. What you are saying does not bear out in this thread.

There is a post, right here, telling of a situation where a woman referred to herself as a girl and was corrected by the poster.

I personally would have found THAT highly offensive.

The issue with debates like this is that each person holds their own standard. There are so many women on DU, perhaps even most women, who do not speak for me. They do not speak to my personal morals, lifestyle, preferences...and yet this number are frequently on hand to tell the "nets" exactly what women think, want and are offended by, without any apparent self knowledge of their own Chauvanism. I think that behavior is offensive. I do not wish to be grouped, because of my gender, at all, especially by people who hide this behavior beneath the heading of defending social rights and freedoms.