to think that there is NEVER an acceptable reason to call a 32 year old woman a "young girl?"

[Hullygully]

No I'm not.

I couldn't care less what emotive flannel is flung about.

IT. IS.NOT.ACCEPTABLE.

The end.

I'm 42, i would be very happy to be referred to as a young girl, or yound lady i can't see it happening though

Its not that trivial if you want to be treated like a grown woman, but its perfectly acceptable to be labelled in a childish fashion

Earlier this year when serving on the counter in the building society I used to work in, I was referred to by a customer as "that little girl". I may be only 5'2 but Im 28, married with DD and a mortgage.

Yabu
I like it.

I think "lads and lasses" are not the same as boy/girl. Lads and lasses can be a dialect turn of phrase. Lasses are common where I live in Scotland, as are lads really. A young boy to me, is my son, who is 5. My nephew who is 11 is a fine young man and will be until he is 18 when he will be a man. The same for my dd...but she insists she is not a young girl, she is A woman....she is 3. I dare anyone to call her a young girl

Op YANBU just based on the phrase as it stands

I agree and so does my dp who commented on it.

I also noticed that the soldier who had a baby in camp bastion was referred to as a girl as well. i think it was the mail.that said young girl soldier has baby? Anyway she is a woman!

The female police officers were women, professional women and their deaths ate tragic and heartbreaking but they are women and not girls.

It's all relative. To a 90 year old you are a very young girl!

I think 'lad' is different to girl. the equivalent to young girl.is young boy and you dont hear news media referring to the soldiers killed in combat as young boys. young men, possibly lads but not boys!

If the person is over 90 years-old, it wouldn't bother me at all.

press too soon.

if the person who said is over 90 years-old, it wouldn't bother me at all.

YANBU

You can refer to someone as "young woman/man" as that just denotes age. No issue with that. But girl/boy should not be used to describe anyone over the age of 13.(ish)

I get called "duck" all the time.

YANBU

Though calling it a "slaughter of the innocents" annoyed me more

They were dedicated police officers, not children.

I think it is never acceptable to tell someone else what they should be called, especially when those persons have recently died and are being described by their relatives!

That is all!

And FWIW DH was called a young boy today, he is 47!

Girls/boys night out suggests juvenile behaviour. You don't call professionals young girls or young boys.

Viva, we must be geographically close. Ay up

"beautiful boy" froma proud parent = fine

Don't you think an eyebrow would have been raised at "beautiful YOUNG boy"?

Dog with a bone, me, chickens

Some people have said there are some situations where they find it acceptable so I conclude YABU.

You are brave, would have thought seeker was the killer from tht last thread

From the responses she got

I got asked if I was 11yo DS's sister last week.

I am still smiling inside about it.

I still get fractionally miffed when referred to as a lady not a girl..I am Liz Jones I think!

YANBU but you already knew that.....