Could we please just NOT

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address each other as "ladies"?

"Come on ladies..." etc

it's so fucking perky

it makes my teeth itch

or ''folks''

"folks" bothers me less

but it is still odious

How is 'ladies' infantilising? Is 'gentleman' infantilising to men?

It's just polite, if a little old-fashioned.

'Yo cunts' is good.

I may start using 'commrades'.

I say 'chaps'. Is that all right? Sort of self-mocking Woosterish jollity?

'Ladies' is gross. 'Girlies' is worse. Makes me think of women who yelp 'I'm a real girlie girl me!' as if a total inability to open a jar of Branston unassisted and a preoccupation with pink footwear is something to be admired

I know it's grim spiders

I suspect that there is no collective noun for the female human which doesn't have some negative connotation or other

I despise being called a lady...it's all so proper...re-enforcing crap about how a "lady" should behave.

Lets call each other comrades.

I'm starting to say 'campers'

Morning campers!!!!

I thought the collective noun for us was "vipers"

Have I been wrong all this time??

Ah....I like vipers.

Afternoon vipers!

I was told off for swaering t'other day - apparently it's not ladylike - I pointed out it's a good job I'm no fucking lady!

Friends, romans, countrymen?

My dad refers to my sister and I as "the bombadier and the admiral". I am not sure what the collective would be, or indeed WHY he does it, but it is probably an improvement on "the rastafarian and the penguin's chuff" which is what he calls our brothers, or "scrumple and rumple" which is how he addresses his grandchildren. I suspect he is insane.

My sister shouts at me for sitting "like a man"

I only do it when I am in jeans and why tf should I sit like "a a"lady" when its not effing comfy and gives you veins.

birds

i like comrades.

Friends, campers and Vipers! Lend me your mooncup.

We could have a combination of comrades and vipers...Vomrades.

Bitches I prefer

'Ladies' has been reclaimed. Yes, it started off as genteel, became slightly ironic and is now ok. It's official

Anyway, what's the alternative ?

Since a bitch is a female dog...I don't want to be known as that. It's an insult made up by men. To bellittle women.

Hmm, not sure about Vomrades. It sounds like the act of being invaded by sick people.

Comrades!!!! - I love it! I work with a raging right winger - she'll just die!

"Morning Comrades!"

There'll be a mad scrabbling from behind her Daily Torygraph and she'll be found, hours later, clutching her signed photograph of hunky David Cameron in one hand and a phone in the other, with her finger on the 9.

Who says it's been reclaimed Finally? First I've heard. I reject the reclamation.

lol babyheave!

Sisters?
(I prefer 'you lot')

I hate 'You lot'. So rude and dismissive.