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Girls vs Women

cantalopes24cantalopes24 member
in October 2011 Moms

One of my female work study students who is older than me just ma'am'd me so it made me think, what do you call other women?

I generally call a group of females girls but I'm starting to think maybe I'm too old to say that? Most of the moms I interact with at E's school and Lo's playgroup are 5 to 10 years older than I am and I find myself starting to say girls but then thinking, well they aren't really and I end up saying ladies because I don't know what is the right term.

FWIW I just turned 27 (I don't know why but to me that is like the official you are now an adult age) and most of the people I'm referring to are 35 to early 40's and kind of stuck up. What do you say? Do you think your age or where you're from makes a difference?

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  • FianschneidFianschneid member

    I usually say "women" or "ladies". I'll throw "broads" out, if I'm dealing the less refined.

    I guess the age of people I'm referring to makes a difference. I'll bashfully admit that if I was talking about a group of 22 year olds, I'd probably call them girls. (I'm in my mid 30s.)

    Edited because I'm without my coffee with means I'm without my words.

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  • StewartandmauraStewartandmaura member

    I call the group of women I hang around with my girls. We are all 33-39.

    Now, I also teach dance classes for teenage girls. I call them girls and their moms I would refer to as ladies or the girls' moms. (because they are not "my girls".) 

    I think it all depends on your frame of reference. How well do you know them? How old they are plays into it as well.  But I still rarely use the term "women" and call them "ladies" instead. (Even when that is questionable.)

     



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  • ChunstadChunstad member
    imageFianschneid:

    I usually say "women" or "ladies". I'll through "broads" out, if I'm dealing the less refined.

    I guess the age of people I'm referring to makes a difference. I'll bashfully admit that if I was talking about a group of 22 year olds, I'd probably call them girls. (I'm in my mid 30s.)

    This exactly.  I didn't start feeling like a 'woman' myself until I was in my 30's.

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  • jwls84jwls84 member
    I call my friends, girls or ladies. When I am referring to people I don't know I usually say women. Unless they seem younger then I'll say girl.
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  • pennysuedogpennysuedog

    So if I'm 32 that means I'm a grown up now?Crying

    I guess I say gals, or ladies, not girls.

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  • colliebabecolliebabe member

    I usually use "ladies" for a group of women my age or a group of young girls. Like if I am approaching my friends I say "hey ladies!" or in my classroom I say "ladies, you need to sit down."

    But I would also use "girls" in my classroom as well.

    Sometimes my friend(s) and I call each other "chica" or "chicas" from all those years of taking Spanish.

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  • cantalopes24cantalopes24 member

    imageChunstad:

    Lol! MH and I have close together birthdays and we both feel like from 22 until a month ago we were young and now we both just turned old. I actually opened his retirement account statement for the first time ever this month.

     

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  • Shannon526Shannon526 member
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    I usually use "ladies" for a group of women my age or a group of young girls. Like if I am approaching my friends I say "hey ladies!" or in my classroom I say "ladies, you need to sit down."

    But I would also use "girls" in my classroom as well.

    Sometimes my friend(s) and I call each other "chica" or "chicas" from all those years of taking Spanish.

    I do all of the bolded, too.. maybe it's a MA thing haha. I can't think of calling a group of women anything other than "ladies" I'm not sure why.

    Side note, when I used to work at the airport, I worked with the international passengers. Some of them were flying to England. I was talking to one of my coworkers and said something along the lines of "hey lady... blah blah blah" .. the next passenger gives me this death stare and says, "only ladies should should be called lady."  Apparently, in England, there are women who are rich or whatnot and have the title "Lady". Well la-tee-freakin-da.

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  • blu-eyedwifeblu-eyedwife member

    For me, it depends on context more than age. 

    In a professional setting I use woman/women.  (the women I work with, women attorneys, the judge was a woman who...)

    For my friends I use girls/ladies interchangeably (the ladies in my moms group, the girls I went to school with)

    For "service" personnel (waitstaff, salespersons) I use girl (the girl who was helping me, the girl who took my order)

    For children in general from birth to?????? I use girls (girls use psychological warfare, girls are more interested in....) 

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  • colliebabecolliebabe member
    imageShannon526:
    imagecolleenb262:

    I usually use "ladies" for a group of women my age or a group of young girls. Like if I am approaching my friends I say "hey ladies!" or in my classroom I say "ladies, you need to sit down."

    But I would also use "girls" in my classroom as well.

    Sometimes my friend(s) and I call each other "chica" or "chicas" from all those years of taking Spanish.

    I do all of the bolded, too.. maybe it's a MA thing haha. I can't think of calling a group of women anything other than "ladies" I'm not sure why.

    Side note, when I used to work at the airport, I worked with the international passengers. Some of them were flying to England. I was talking to one of my coworkers and said something along the lines of "hey lady... blah blah blah" .. the next passenger gives me this death stare and says, "only ladies should should be called lady."  Apparently, in England, there are women who are rich or whatnot and have the title "Lady". Well la-tee-freakin-da.

     Ha!  This story cracked me up!  Was this at Logan or when you were in FL? I can just picture people at Logan being like "ya, welcome to MA, lady!"

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  • jonnygurl76jonnygurl76 member
    I only say ma'am if the woman is clearly decades older than me. I still say 'girls' if referring to my friends. 
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  • Shannon526Shannon526 member
    imagecolleenb262:
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    imagecolleenb262:

    I usually use "ladies" for a group of women my age or a group of young girls. Like if I am approaching my friends I say "hey ladies!" or in my classroom I say "ladies, you need to sit down."

    But I would also use "girls" in my classroom as well.

    Sometimes my friend(s) and I call each other "chica" or "chicas" from all those years of taking Spanish.

    I do all of the bolded, too.. maybe it's a MA thing haha. I can't think of calling a group of women anything other than "ladies" I'm not sure why.

    Side note, when I used to work at the airport, I worked with the international passengers. Some of them were flying to England. I was talking to one of my coworkers and said something along the lines of "hey lady... blah blah blah" .. the next passenger gives me this death stare and says, "only ladies should should be called lady."  Apparently, in England, there are women who are rich or whatnot and have the title "Lady". Well la-tee-freakin-da.

     Ha!  This story cracked me up!  Was this at Logan or when you were in FL? I can just picture people at Logan being like "ya, welcome to MA, lady!"

    Haha I was at Logan :-p

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