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.

Doesn't bother me in the slightest, neither does duck, love, pet etc. I just don't get it. I don't feel patronised by it at all - if someone wants to think they can patronise me by using those particular terms than they can fire ahead. I'm not explaining myself very well but I don't let people patronise me or if they do, I just think "you sad fuck" and move on. I have felt more patronised by people "over using" my name in a few short sentences than some old fashioned eejit calling me "young girl" [shrug]

why dont you take this back over to FWR, so that you can all high five each other...

It doesn't bother me. So I suppose YABU.

YANBU

A member of the family has recently passed away, aged 29, if I hear one more person refer to her as a girl I will lose it.

It lessens her, it diminishes the things she achieved in her life, it belittles her relationship.

I get that some people don?t mind been called a girl
But I don?t get that that some people say it?s just a word what?s the harm?

Words change things.

Squeakytoy..because we aren't 7?

Because we aren't "young girls" having a little snigger?

But grown women making a serious point

I agree in a professional or public context this is never acceptable. in a personal one I will choose to accept different. I can't imagine I will ever stop describing my three daughters as 'the girls' - even though we will all think it highly amusing when I am 90 and they are 60-70. I don't mind being called a girl by the very elderly patients I work with either. Some of them have got 60 years on me and we treat each other with mutual respect. However if my boss descibed me as a girl I would be very cross.

Interesting that those who find the word 'girl' belittling have no qualms about belittling females in other ways themselves.

This is a thread that was triggered by an issue on another thread, it isn't ABOUT the other thread,

It's not a "matter of opinion"

"Young girl" = child.

But not the YOUNG girls, northern.

Which is the point.

Ok.

So you see "young girl" and think of a woman in her thirties do you?

May I respectfully suggest your pants are aflame?

YANBU

I'm always getting called young girl.

It doesnt help that I look about 14.

Also doesnt help that I now work in Thorntons where 70% of the custmers are the older generation who come in for the weekly bag of special toffee!

It grates.

So Tough, you are telling me, hand on heart, that you see "young girl" and think, that must be a woman in her thirties.

I see.

I respectfully disagree, it is about opinion and you posted about it on AIBU, so I offered mine. Í wouldn't call you a girl if it offended you but it wouldn't offend me. It's that simple.

A young girl to me is a pre-teen.

NOT "a girl"

a "YOUNG girl"

HOW MANY MORE TIMES?

agggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Whatever, the same applies. I feel young. Call me a young girl, I don't give a toss.

This is clearly a Po subject

The question wasn't about whether you would be offended if you were called a young girl yourself. It was about whether it was acceptable for the term to be used ABOUT a 32 year old woman. Are there really that many posters who would use that term themselves to refer to someone else ?