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 just shy of my thirties and quite slight and attractive (and modest, obviously ) and I get this A LOT. Usually as a dismissive put down by other women, sometimes as a patronising aside from men. It is also assumed that I'm a junior at work which isn't the case, often I'm more senior than the person sniffily asking. Clients often refer to me as "the young girl" to my colleagues' amusement. I'm quite a way off twelve!

I'll appreciate it a lot more if it's still happening in ten years or so I'm sure...

Thought it was v disrespectful in the context it was used and to which you are referring. Didn't sit well with me.

You haven't answered my question Tough. I repeat:

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. en't answered my question Tough. I repeat:

Why am I a moron? Is it because I feel secure enough in myself to not be offended by a non-offensive term? I just can't summon up the energy to be bothered at all by this. I feel terribly sorry for the family of the person who's life was lost and it's got sweet FA to do with how she was described in the press.

You see anyone under 40 as a young girl?

Right...

Hully, you are going to get overrun by the Po here, I fear for you

Gawd, I don't. I think of grown women as, well, women. I might say 'lady' if I'm being polite about a woman older than me, and 'young woman' about a woman younger than me. But 'girl' to me is a teen or younger, and 'young girl' is primary age. I don't take offence at a member of an older generation calling me 'girl' in a friendly way, but if they were doing it to belittle I'd be forced to cut them with my sharp wit

You've looked up girl.

Not YOUNG girl.

Let's try that, shall we?

eyes Hully enviously - can't believe you are such a young girl!

OP..YANBU to have an opinion on the acceptability or not of using the terminology 'young girl' to describe an adult.

YABVU to insist very strongly that you are correct. Also YABU to start new threads about a topic that has already had many, many responses. Just because you don't like some of the responses, doesn't mean you should insist on repeating your surprise and annoyance via yet another thread.

It's a little egotistical actually.

I don't care if you think it egotistical.

I am fighting for something I think is really important for womankind

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204991/Dale-Cregan-arrest-Witness-saw-gunman-kill-PCs-Fiona-Bone-32-Nicola-Hughes-23.html

read that.. get yourself worked up into a frothy state because they are described as Police Girls..

and then go and think, those GIRLS will never be going home again... and then ask yourself if it is really so fucking important to bang on and on about your cause.. because it isnt, it really bloody isnt...

It's not because I think I AM RIGHT

It's because I think infantilising women keeps them in their place. Under the men.

Police Girls?

Who gave you the right to decide what is important for womankind?

you're being moronic again

'It's because I think infantilising women keeps them in their place. Under the men.'

Don't be silly.

How is that silly, dear young girl?

Why? I'm moronic because I don't agree with you. That's beyond ridiculous.

I call men boys and lads too

I find strange that someone who spouts endlessly about equality for women tells us we can't have our own opinions if they don't agree with her's!

Hypocrite much?