To be sick to the back teeth of hearing sportswomen being referred to as "girls"?

[beansprout]

What are they? 8 years old with pigtails?

And "ladies" isn't much better either.

What's wrong with "women" ffs?

[BarefootDancer]

Hear hear

[flowerybeanbag]

AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!

I know! I noticed that when I had the football on earlier.

They wouldn't refer to Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard et al as 'the boys' would they?

[tribpot]

I thought we had sorted this at Wimbledon with the whole "Ms Williams" thing, v "Murray". Our 'ladies' have done rather better at the "football" than our 'men' yet still too difficult?

[WideWebWitch]

I agree, YANBU

[southeatsastras]

did they? sounds pants. yanbu

[ChantillyLace]

See now, I'd rather be referred to as a girl than a lady or a woman! a) makes me feel younger b)i think women sounds old! and ladies just sounds sarcastic.

[DrNortherner]

I'd rather be called a girl too...

[southeatsastras]

you wouldn't call a 38 year old man a boy would you? so why do women have to put up with girls

[rantinghousewife]

Chantillylace, am betting if you were short of stature you wouldn't be so keen to be called girl. I'm flaming 35 and some people still insist on calling me a little girl
Agreeing wholeheartedly with you beansprout, in fact, am nodding so vigourously in agreement, look like one of those sodding nodding dogs!

[beansprout]

Exactly. As I understand it, boys grow into men and girls grow into women!!!

[DavidGest]

My grandad called everyone 'boy'. Man or woman. Young or old. Now that's equality.

[ChantillyLace]

RHW I certainly am not tall and I'm in my 40s so still want to be referred to as a girl! I also refer to OH and his friends as 'the boys'

[southeastastra]

boys is strictly for under 15's and over 80's in between they're men.

[pointydog]

chantillylace
do you have a pretty face?

[pointydog]

footballers are sometimes called boys, as in 'the boys done good'

[ChantillyLace]

In between they'd like to think they're men!!

Pointy I dont think I have a pretty face but I do have a pony tail hanging down!!

[pointydog]

so you are named after the song?

[ChantillyLace]

and I love football so perhaps that's why i like 'boys' so much!

[pointydog]

and do you mean in between their legs?

[ChantillyLace]

yes I am, cos I just happened to be singing it while i was trying to think of a name!

[LyraBelacqua]

A 33-year-old woman was referred to as a 'girl' in a newspaper last week. I think girl fitted in the headline and woman didn't.

[startouchedtrinity]

I think footballers do get referred to collectively as boys (as in 'our boys done good') but singly as men. Cricketers and rugby players are definitely men, which suggests a value judgement on football.

Not that that is any excuse for referring to women as girls, unless the women do so themselves - as in, 'I'm really proud of the rest of the girls', which I seem to remember hearing from a rower.

[startouchedtrinity]

x posts, pointydog!

[ChantillyLace]

no i dont mean in between their legs!!

i mean they like to think they're grown-ups but actually they never do!!

mind you, me neither so perhaps I'm just one of the boys (oops there's that word again) with boobs!!

[saggarmakersbottomknocker]

If you're a female runner and over 35 you're called a veteran! I'll stick with girls I think.