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| June 13th, 2019 at 10:26:16 AM permalink | |
| KNathan Member since: Dec 9, 2018 Threads: 37 Posts: 547 |
I remember being confused myself as a child when my Mom told me she was going out after work with her girlfriend. I wondered if my Mom was cheating on my stepdad with another woman. She explained that girlfriend meant female friend. See, I called my childhood best friend, my friend, not my girlfriend. I thought girlfriend always meant romantic until Mom set me straight. :) |
| June 13th, 2019 at 11:03:57 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 241 Posts: 6108 |
I hear the term girlfriends to mean female friends of other females lots of times on shows like Sex and the City, but can't recall ever hearing it in real life that way. I think most women I know would say the term sounds rather childish. I'd be interested in the female perspective. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| June 13th, 2019 at 11:58:11 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 137 Posts: 21195 |
I think they use it more among themselves. I will say for all the old feminist, "we're women not girls" I have never heard a woman say they are "going out with the women at the office." Maybe in a formalized setting, but informal always girls/gals. Men seem to use boys/guys fairly interchangeably. I think only once a guy got upset when I asked if he was one of the "X Boys" meaning we had a few people from a city about 80 miles away. And no, he wasn't Black. I was thinking, "what the heck, its an expression." Some people wound too tight. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength |
| June 13th, 2019 at 12:19:05 PM permalink | |
| quadriga Member since: Mar 30, 2019 Threads: 0 Posts: 114 | The sisters (black women) have been calling each other "girlfriend" and "sister" for a long time. It's a cultural thing and has little to do with sexuality or maturity. |
| June 14th, 2019 at 3:27:11 AM permalink | |
| KNathan Member since: Dec 9, 2018 Threads: 37 Posts: 547 | So, George Lopez had a few episodes with Benny dating and being engaged to Randy which was kind of uncomfortable as George Lopez in real life is 9 years older than Nick Offerman man. I don't think the audience would have been comfortable with the fact that George's future Stepdad is 9 years younger than George is. In the show Randy is 5 years older than George so not as bad as their real life age differences, but still creepy when you take into account that George would have been older than his Stepdad! |
| June 14th, 2019 at 4:15:58 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Beverly Hills banned the nonelectric ones. |
| June 14th, 2019 at 4:37:00 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | In a former apartment complex several young ladies who were taking language courses would routinely express puzzlement claiming that "they are not boys and they are not friends, so why do you call them boyfriends?". These Latin American women had rather active sex lives but viewed men as animated vibrators with rudimentary conversational skills. |
| June 14th, 2019 at 4:51:15 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 241 Posts: 6108 |
Why do women never view me that way? Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| June 14th, 2019 at 5:08:50 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 137 Posts: 21195 |
Probably also as ATM machines. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength |
| June 15th, 2019 at 5:41:04 AM permalink | |
| KNathan Member since: Dec 9, 2018 Threads: 37 Posts: 547 | My mind is blown that AZ seems to be a woman! O.O With that name I thought for sure she was a man. O.O |