To be sick to the back teeth of hearing sportswomen being referred to as "girls"?

[beansprout]

What are they? 8 years old with pigtails?

And "ladies" isn't much better either.

What's wrong with "women" ffs?

Hear hear

AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!

I know! I noticed that when I had the football on earlier.

They wouldn't refer to Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard et al as 'the boys' would they?

I thought we had sorted this at Wimbledon with the whole "Ms Williams" thing, v "Murray". Our 'ladies' have done rather better at the "football" than our 'men' yet still too difficult?

I agree, YANBU

did they? sounds pants. yanbu

See now, I'd rather be referred to as a girl than a lady or a woman! a) makes me feel younger b)i think women sounds old! and ladies just sounds sarcastic.

I'd rather be called a girl too...

you wouldn't call a 38 year old man a boy would you? so why do women have to put up with girls

Chantillylace, am betting if you were short of stature you wouldn't be so keen to be called girl. I'm flaming 35 and some people still insist on calling me a little girl
Agreeing wholeheartedly with you beansprout, in fact, am nodding so vigourously in agreement, look like one of those sodding nodding dogs!

Exactly. As I understand it, boys grow into men and girls grow into women!!!

My grandad called everyone 'boy'. Man or woman. Young or old. Now that's equality.

RHW I certainly am not tall and I'm in my 40s so still want to be referred to as a girl! I also refer to OH and his friends as 'the boys'

boys is strictly for under 15's and over 80's in between they're men.

chantillylace
do you have a pretty face?

footballers are sometimes called boys, as in 'the boys done good'

In between they'd like to think they're men!!

Pointy I dont think I have a pretty face but I do have a pony tail hanging down!!

so you are named after the song?

and I love football so perhaps that's why i like 'boys' so much!

and do you mean in between their legs?

yes I am, cos I just happened to be singing it while i was trying to think of a name!

A 33-year-old woman was referred to as a 'girl' in a newspaper last week. I think girl fitted in the headline and woman didn't.

I think footballers do get referred to collectively as boys (as in 'our boys done good') but singly as men. Cricketers and rugby players are definitely men, which suggests a value judgement on football.

Not that that is any excuse for referring to women as girls, unless the women do so themselves - as in, 'I'm really proud of the rest of the girls', which I seem to remember hearing from a rower.

x posts, pointydog!

no i dont mean in between their legs!!

i mean they like to think they're grown-ups but actually they never do!!

mind you, me neither so perhaps I'm just one of the boys (oops there's that word again) with boobs!!

If you're a female runner and over 35 you're called a veteran! I'll stick with girls I think.