to hate when people saying 'Going out with the girls'.

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I'm sure I probably am being unreasonable. But whenever someone says they are going out with the girls, my teeth itch! I think it's because I imagine going out with the girls to be either a nice day trip with your 5 year old daughter and her little friends, or rampant women driven wild from being released from the daily grid getting lashed and dancing on tables.

It's crazy I know. But I say 'going out with friends'. I never differentiate the sex of my friends, it seems a bit arbitrary!

I don't like cake. Fattening and cloggs up your arteries. Tastes boring.

There, I said it.

I am still female.

Ah, I thought I would be alone in this. Marvelous. So... does that make me one of the girls?

I bake lots of cakes but am wheat intolerant so can't eat them (oh the irony).

I don't mind being called a girl at 36. I do mind people equating girlie = shit/weak

Good point Insomnia

I do shopping and cocktails with the girls.
and the get together beforehand for a drink and what are you wearing chat.

But properly it's ladies night ( tuesday in Dubai most clubs and bars do free drinks for ladies) anyone that plies me with free alcohol can call me what the hell they like tbh.

Better than 'a night out/in with the cynical old bags who no longer know how to have fun'

I agree!

I don't mind being called a girl at 36. I do mind people equating girlie = shit/weak

I agree again!

If having fun means being called a girlie, then I'm happy to be cynical.

Honestly, can you imagine someone like Sophie Loren or Marilyn Monroe describing themselves as 'girlie'? I mean both look(ed) like they knew how to have a good time but are, without a doubt, women! Or Drew Barrymore? Scarlett Johansson?

I could go on but I'm guessing you catch my drift....

I can't go out with the girls because my friendship groups are all mixed. I don't mind the term though.

WHen I was at uni the girls on my corridor had 'girls nights' - but only because the boys started it by excluding us from their 'boys nights'! :p

Theoretically I agree we are women not girls. But my husband goes out with the boys so I don't see it as a sexist issue?

YABU. I do the girls....I go out with the girls. We have nights out with the girls. Are your teeth good and itchy yet??? :)

In fact I'm out with the girls next week. Can't wait. I'm hoping to do something particularly girly and I'm 46

I really, really don't see the harm in it. It's just a fun expression. If you don't like it then fine, but don't look down your nose at those who do.
I don't use it btw but couldn't care less if others do

YANBU. Can I add to phrases that are objectional "abit of a giggle". Just cant bear it. "Off to have a giggle with the girls"

Ah but the phrase teeth itch makes my errrr...

Really fucks me off

To me a night out with the girls is just a figure of speech, and utterly, utterly harmless.
If I get together with my female mates, yes we call it a girls night in or out, whatever.
And most of us are over 40, so are probably too old to give a shit about what other people think
And as for the statement about all linking arms and winking at the delivery man, how very snobbish.
Good luck to them, at least they're having a laugh which sadly a lot of posters on this thread would seem to look down on them for.
So much for the sisterhood.

Great point LadyBeagle...I think I'm too old to care what people think re-what I say or do and I like all kinds of women. Some might even look down their noses at the ladies who link arms and wink at delivery men or door men. I don't judge them for the planed noses, I don't give a fudge if they judge me for my winky, linky ways.

YANBU. Why should anyone think twice about using the word woman for an adult female human being?

i use the term when referring to the group of friends i still see from school, so it refers to a specific group of women that i have known since we were girls - so i think it is an accurate (and quick) way to describe them in the same way that i say i am going out with "book club" or "the women from training" or "friends from uni".

kerala arrrrggghhhh!

That was my head exploding!

I like going for cocktails with the girls. Ladies sounds very old and I'm still in my 20's. I say friends sometimes but only usually if boys will also be present. I also don't say men.

Like skrumle, i also describe my female friends from school (most of them met in primary school), as the girls, if we are on a night out. We also have girlie weekends away!! And we link arms sometimes, drink cocktails and sometimes dance on tables.

YANBU.

There's something obsequious and over-familiar about it.

And I don't do over-familiarity with ANYONE other than DP!

I bloody hate it too. When i go out, if it worth moentioning then i say "i had a nice night out". Who gives a shit who i had a nice night out with?? And my nights out are not epic events so hardly worth regurgitating at the best of times.

Hate that boots advert too.