"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove > wrote:
>
> : > What he does call me sometimes is "girl". As in "OK girl, lets go
> : > home." I'm 60, and we've been married for 40 years, so I'm far from a
> : > girl, but I love it when he does that.
>
> : Oooh. That's another thing that bugs the peewaddins out of me. I am
> *not*
> : a girl! I have referred to women as "gals" and that term is derogatory
> to
> : some people. I don't see how but I try not to use it now. I do
> sometimes
> : slip up though.
>
> I don't know. Often, on Saturday nights I get together with three other
> widow to watch a rented flim and eat popcorn and/or fruit. I refer to it
> as "girls night out." We are aged 71- 8????? and still kicking.

Okay. That term really bothers me too. I'd never heard it until I was
living on Cape Cod. A coworker said she was having a girl's night out. I
was like... Wha? That is just something that is not appealing to me. I
have friends of both genders. Yes, when I used to go out there was
sometimes no males there but that was simply because nobody was available
then. I just don't see the need to qualify it like just women going out.
But I do know that some people are that way. My coworker was excited about
this night out because there would be no men there.