You really don't like Cork, right? There a 99 year old is still boy.Imagine if a man of that age was referred to as a boy?
I'm talking about using it in a work or professional setting.You really don't like Cork, right? There a 99 year old is still boy.
Lots of ladies talk of going on a girls night out, I presume it's not belittling when they're talking about themselves and their friends? At times I hear grown men talk about going for a few drinks with the boys. Language and the meaning and use of words evolves. The Oxford and other dictionaries now list the informal use of boy or girl to refer to an adult as common usage.
The term to take offence is quite appropriate I feel, very often people choose to take offence where none was intended. That is a reflection on themselves rather that the other party.
Professional setting I agree with, as more formal language is more appropriate there. However, if conversing with friends informally (outside of or within a workplace), and the person working in the shop comes up, the use of boy or girl is accepted.I'm talking about using it in a work or professional setting.
When you were working and if you had a female boss would you refer to her as a girl in a work setting? Would you say "That girl is my boss" or "That woman is my boss"?We’re arriving more and more fast at stupid political correctness. Mrs Lep (according to herself was always One-of-the-Girls) and woe be to he who would try to change that, even if he’s from Dublin.
I agree. Offence is taken, not given. Finding something anachronistic and deciding to be offended by it are two entirely different things.While watching a YouTube vid the other day I noticed in the comments section a quote form John Cleese about wokeism
"There are people just sitting there, who are deliberately waiting, for the thrill of been offended"
While watching a YouTube vid the other day I noticed in the comments section a quote form John Cleese about wokeism
"There are people just sitting there, who are deliberately waiting, for the thrill of been offended"
Would people even say "that woman"?When you were working and if you had a female boss would you refer to her as a girl in a work setting? Would you say "That girl is my boss" or "That woman is my boss"?
If women are referred to as girls in a work setting, a place where a man would never be referred to as a boy, it automatically puts then in a junior role and creates an environment where women should be in junior roles.
If you are in a shop and you were asked for assistance would you say "Ask that girl over there to help you" when referring to a woman in her 50's? If the 50 something employee was a man would you say "Ask that boy over there to help you"?
Where it's okay to refer to men as boys it's also okay to refer to women as girls. Where it's not okay to refer to men as boys then it's also not okay to refer to women as girls.
And yet I don't know any men in their 40's 50's and 60's who would like to be referred to as a boy in a work setting. What does that tell us?I'm sure a lot of ladies in their 40's 50's and 60's are chuffed to be still called girls Purple.
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