We're Not Your Girl!

Gentlemen, now that we're on the gender divide path, please let me jot down a little observation on some vocabulary use you have confronted me with lately.

I'm sure that you all, at some point, have come across two blacks (yes, yes, not pc -don't refrain from calling me leche-leche) greeting each other with a hartfelt "Yo, Nigga!". That's fine, isn't it? No problem when blacks refer to each other with 'nigger'; just don't even think about doing that yourself - way too leche-leche or cafe-con-leche and, most of all, too much colonial history for that!

Now, this mechanism goes for the use of the term 'girl' too. Any female individual above age 18 you encounter, you refer to as a 'woman', maybe a 'lady' if you prefer. And in case you're not sure about her age, just stick with 'young woman' or 'young lady'. That will do...

Women can have GIRRRRLS-parties, engage in GIRRRLS-talk, do GIRRRRLS-stuff, or be GIRRRLS. They can refer to each other with a heartfelt 'GIRL', but this 'diminutive' is reserved for use between women only. Feel free to refer to your little seven-year old sister as a girl. That's what she is. But the women you work with in your office, they don't engage in girls' talk. The female secretary in the office of clients you visit is definitely not a nice girl. She might be a nice woman though. And the woman you fancy, is not a girl. Or are you planning some serious down-dating?!

After centuries of imposed male supremacy, women it will be...
Well, for you at least.