| Why are they still saying that they want a girl .............
Posted: 7/6/2008 6:57:35 AM | | Terminology, and it's just simply the way most people speak. 'Woman' friend kind of means something else apart from 'girlfriend', sounds more like she's more of a friend than a lover. Man friend just sounds weird; everyone knows what a boyfriend is. Just to distinguish between friends and lovers. Of course, if you want to change the entire populations way of speaking, feel free to try to start a change. Just be prepared to do a lot of explaining. Besides, we guys get bashed for it no matter what we call you. There's always some women who seem to take offense to everything now a days. I don't know any guy who would complain about being called someone's boyfriend (unless of course, he ISN'T her boyfriend). And yet, here we are. If you don't want to be called my girlfriend, don't worry. You never will be. Problem solved. And, should I ever have any 'girlfriends', they can call me whatever they want. Pinocchio, quasimoto, whatever. | |
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| Why are they still saying that they want a girl .............
Posted: 7/6/2008 7:37:21 AM | One of my criteria for considering a female a woman instead of a girl is when they no longer over-react to using certain terms THEY consider offensive... I suspect OP would also object to gal, chick...
Personally, I have no problem referring to a female as a "girl" or "gal" if I consider her to be "young at heart..." But make no mistake about it, there is no shortage of females that never quite make it to being a woman truly worthy of respect - I suspect that most women would rather have them labeled as "girls" with the potential to eventually become "women" as opposed to other terms that could be applied...
Overall, I would suggest lightening up... I doubt anyone calls the cranky old lady yelling at kids to get off of her lawn a girl... | |
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| Why are they still saying that they want a "girl" .............
Posted: 7/10/2008 6:39:57 AM |
One of my criteria for considering a female a woman instead of a girl is when they no longer over-react to using certain terms THEY consider offensive... I suspect OP would also object to gal, chick... Actually ... NO!!! ... I would not object to "GAL" or "CHICK" ... or whatever.
As I have stated before ... this was meant to be a FUN thread ... not a thread for people to insult anyone.
Thanks to all who are keeping it a FUN thread ...  | |
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| Why are they still saying that they want a girl .............
Posted: 7/10/2008 7:20:01 AM | Cotter, where I come from people my age and over are referring to themselves as girl and boy. If you read ads for employment many say "We think you're a guy or a girl in the 35 -40 year range).
If you read personal ads they say "I'm a youthful, 55-year old lad (or gal)".
I think it's a ply to make people feel younger about themselves. It's completely ridiculous. | |
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| Why are they still saying that they want a girl .............
Posted: 7/10/2008 7:34:53 AM | Only young women in their 20's and 30's get bothered by THAT term.
Once you're older, you'll embrace youthful terms trust me. It was a few years ago that I was called Jimmy and I laughed so hard I got tears in my eyes because I hadn't been called that since a little boy. You notice now I use it with pride. I actually had a woman who dissagreed with me about an issue say I must have mental problems using that name at my age. I think she was right about that at least. | |
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gvnage
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Joined: 6/16/2008
Msg: 81 | |
| Why do they do that?
Posted: 7/12/2008 11:11:15 PM | | ok, but why do guys spell the word 'woman' as 'women' -to me thats worse than 'girl'. I haven't noticed women misspelling the word 'man' as 'men'. Are there that many freudian slippers out there, or do y'all think that is an intentional clue left behind sos we know we aint the 'one and only'? | |
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gvnage
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Joined: 6/16/2008
Msg: 82 | |
| Why are they still saying that they want a girl .............
Posted: 7/12/2008 11:20:06 PM | | dont know if this puts your mind to rest or not, but in French, the term for boyfriend is 'petit ami'-tr: little friend (literal), boyfriend ( idiomatic). So at least in France, they dont have it any better in the linguistics dept. | |
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