@soothfast saidSo, OK, guys and gals. Wonder why they kept guys, and apply it equally to women? Is this when libs began to emerge?
Yes.
About half a century ago.
Soothfast, have you ever considered your aunt Sophie to be a guy?
Does it not bother one of you people to consider calling a very nice girl a guy? I just don't get it.
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@averagejoe1 saidGals is gone, if it ever existed. Guy is a male. Guys is mixed. A lone female is not a guy, she's a girl/woman/lady/person. You choose different words for singular and plural.
So, OK, guys and gals. Wonder why they kept guys, and apply it equally to women? Is this when libs began to emerge?
Soothfast, have you ever considered your aunt Sophie to be a guy?
Does it not bother one of you people to consider calling a very nice girl a guy? I just don't get it.
A female cat is a queen, a male cat is a tom, but a cat can be anything. Cats as a plural doesn't make choices, it's always cats.
What's a very nice girl anyway? Nice is meaningless, very nice is meaningless, girl is a female child or a female teenager but not an adult female. What kind of female are you describing when you say a very nice girl?
@kewpie saidIn the US you'll hear one woman call another "girl" quite a lot in certain circles. A lot is dictated by region or ethnicity. Things like "Damn girl, why don't you dump that guy?"
Gals is gone, if it ever existed. Guy is a male. Guys is mixed. A lone female is not a guy, she's a girl/woman/lady/person. You choose different words for singular and plural.
A female cat is a queen, a male cat is a tom, but a cat can be anything. Cats as a plural doesn't make choices, it's always cats.
What's a very nice girl anyway? Nice is meaningless, very nice ...[text shortened]... ager but not an adult female. What kind of female are you describing when you say a very nice girl?
@averagejoe1 saidHumans must confuse you every day.
So, OK, guys and gals. Wonder why they kept guys, and apply it equally to women? Is this when libs began to emerge?
Soothfast, have you ever considered your aunt Sophie to be a guy?
Does it not bother one of you people to consider calling a very nice girl a guy? I just don't get it.
@suzianne saidNHow aboout this Sue and Kewpie. I just wrote, about liberals, that "I am glad not to be knotted up in y'all's ball of wax'.
Humans must confuse you every day.
Quiz: How would you have written that sentence where it is grammatically correct and make's sense and covers male and female.? (Your ball of wax would not be acceptable, would not work)
@kewpie saidFeminine. I would have said that but you would consider it sexist, would you not?
Gals is gone, if it ever existed. Guy is a male. Guys is mixed. A lone female is not a guy, she's a girl/woman/lady/person. You choose different words for singular and plural.
A female cat is a queen, a male cat is a tom, but a cat can be anything. Cats as a plural doesn't make choices, it's always cats.
What's a very nice girl anyway? Nice is meaningless, very nice ...[text shortened]... ager but not an adult female. What kind of female are you describing when you say a very nice girl?
@averagejoe1 saidNothing wrong with using the word feminine, or masculine for that matter. They're just descriptive words. Sexism is another matter, but it's a sloppy expression with multiple meanings so I'd never use it, unlike chauvinism which has a specific meaning. Was that the meaning you intended?
Feminine. I would have said that but you would consider it sexist, would you not?
How would you treat your two daughters, one a traditional "girly girl" with fluffy toys and pink ballet shoes, and the other a tree-climbing tomboy who helps dad fix the car? Would you regard the second one as something not quite right?
@kewpie saidA bit off subject, and an inappropriate way to put it, that, she is not quite right. I think Grace Kelly was a Tomboy, and certainly Katherine Hepburn, to name a few notables.
Nothing wrong with using the word feminine, or masculine for that matter. They're just descriptive words. Sexism is another matter, but it's a sloppy expression with multiple meanings so I'd never use it, unlike chauvinism which has a specific meaning. Was that the meaning you intended?
How would you treat your two daughters, one a traditional "girly girl" with fluffy to ...[text shortened]... ing tomboy who helps dad fix the car? Would you regard the second one as something not quite right?
Anyway, calling a feminine girl a guy....THAT is not quite right. Comical at best.
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@averagejoe1 saidOur girls don't seem to be bothered by it. It's a whole heap better being one of the guys than being regarded as a chattel or easy meat or an inferior species. Remember Annie Oakley?
A bit off subject, and an inappropriate way to put it, that, she is not quite right. I think Grace Kelly was a Tomboy, and certainly Katherine Hepburn, to name a few notables.
Anyway, calling a feminine girl a guy....THAT is not quite right. Comical at best.
@kewpie saidWell,, that about does it. Boils down to girls being OK with being called a guy. I picture my early years, courting the girls, when they were different than we were, which was the beauty of it.
Our girls don't seem to be bothered by it. It's a whole heap better being one of the guys than being regarded as a chattel or easy meat or an inferior species. Remember Annie Oakley?
You are making it where there is no longer such a difference. Sad. Next time I meet a person I like at a 'Club, ugh', my first question will be I like you, but what are you?
@kewpie said“What kind of female are you describing when you say a very nice girl?”
Gals is gone, if it ever existed. Guy is a male. Guys is mixed. A lone female is not a guy, she's a girl/woman/lady/person. You choose different words for singular and plural.
A female cat is a queen, a male cat is a tom, but a cat can be anything. Cats as a plural doesn't make choices, it's always cats.
What's a very nice girl anyway? Nice is meaningless, very nice ...[text shortened]... ager but not an adult female. What kind of female are you describing when you say a very nice girl?
one that doesnt have a dick
@mott-the-hoople saidNot surprised you have such a low bar.
“What kind of female are you describing when you say a very nice girl?”
one that doesnt have a dick
