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DNAHelicase -> RE: I hear its all about the cheese! (10/6/2012 2:38:23 PM)
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ORIGINAL: cbx16v
The girls/women thing is an interested point actually. I guess I'm looking for someone who is somewhere between 20-30 years old, I wonder which the females at the lower end of that age range prefer to be called and better relate to? The same applies to the upper too, do all prefer to be labelled as women? Which should it be to address all by?
As long as you understand that you can't please everybody no matter what you use, you're golden.
My personal take on it is that "girl" is often used in a quasi-derogatory way particularly by male doms, so I don't care to be called that ("little girl," "good girl," using "girls" to refer to all women while simultaneously using "men" to refer to all men). It's used by some men (and women) as a way of diminishing women. I'm not the type to get my panties in a wad over it, though. If it's just that one thing, I ignore it. If it's one thing among many, many other things that add up to a man (or woman) who seems to think that women are inferior to men, I write him off and don't waste my time on him. However, I don't automatically think that somebody who uses "girls" to refer to women is being derogatory. It depends on the way that person uses the word and what else that person says. Somebody who uses "girls" and "guys" equally doesn't strike me as the least bit derogatory, just somebody who likes informal speech.
I suggest using "women" in general, particularly for writing your profile. I think it makes you sound more respectful than using "girls" when you refer to dominant women of any age. But that's just me.
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