i'm not a girl!

Lady has always been the title I thought most respectful. It's true, it's all relative, but because 'girl' does have its connotation of it being a younger and therefore immature female, I wouldn't want to be called that. Female as well, just seems too scientific. A bitch is a female dog: female is too generic for my liking. I, however, am a lady (aka, a human female)

 

Compared to a lot of terms that people use, girl, woman, lady or miss are a blessing.

 

i'm from the south. we call everyone "girl". i've called senior citizens "girl".

actually, i think "girl" originated as a term for a boy. lol.

 

i used to love when my african friends called me "fille"

 

I agree, and I thought I was the only one that did this. :blush5: I was sitting in my biochem class the other day and the prof was giving a lecture on gel electrolysis and acrylamide, and I went on a 10 minute daydream about how the word "acrylamide" is really pretty. Also the word citric. It makes me think of stained-glass...
Reminds me of Louis CK when he says he loves the sound of the word "****" because phonetically, it's just a beautiful word, whereas "vagina" is a really ugly word and doesn't suit its application at all. But then, he also thinks that vagina's are so beautiful that every single one should have a little butterfly fluttering around it at all times.

Have I gone offtopic enough, yet?

 

I'm happy to know that there is someone else like me Although, I have to say that I think both the word "****" and "vagina" to be ugly words, although of course actual cunts and vaginas are fabulous

 

I call females 'woman' when I respect them.

 

For now on don't call me a boy, call me flartle-zoid.

 

I am offended by being called a "girl" as well. It happens far more often than people calling men "boy".
We discussed this in my Women's Studies class, actually. Prior to civil rights, (but even still today) black people are degraded by being called "boys" or "girls." Growing up in the South, I witnessed this a lot. If my father were describing a 40 year old black man, he would say "that black boy," but if he were white, it would be "that man."
Although it is sometimes used innocently, I think it's just another way for people to condescend over others... "I'm a man, and even though we're the same age, I'll call you a 'girl'"

 

This kind of elaborates on my point above. It's very common.

 

I generally only use the term "Lady" if they are wearing mom jeans

 

Ha! That is totally what I think of when I hear 'lady'

 

i look like a 15 year old so it doesn't bother me to be called a girl. I think it's odd to hear myself being called a woman or addressed as m'am. i call women my own age girls. i don't really think about it. as long as they're not calling me bitch.

 

I was called a "boy" by my ex. dumb bitch I was twice the man she was.

 

My whole family always call women girls when they are WOMEN!
I am a girl, but if I were an adult, I wouldn't want to be called a girl.

Why is it a male is a man as soon as he is old enough to speak, and a girl will stay a girl until she's an old lady?

 

Not really. Mostly because I call guys guys or boys, which are both diminutives, and I call everyone, regardless of gender, a dude.

I think we give language too much power. Some phrases will always bother some people. There is literally no way to win. Obviously some things should change, like referring to humanity as humanity instead of mankind, but some things, like girl, are just colliquial and at heart subjective in how offensive they are.

 

I like the term lady.

I feel like girl is most appropriate for people my age. My mom is a woman, I'm still too young for that.

 

I only call a woman that when she's being a complete and total no-way-she's-ever-going-to-change type bitch

 

Yes, I can't stand it when someone calls me a girl. If I was a fucking girl then I wouldn't bleed every month Damnit!!! I also believe that men's balls should cramp up every month and they should bleed as well...it's only fair!

 

What about "Miss"? Is that offensive to anyone?