Another place for "female"--police reports. Where I'd be female cauc, blonde/blue, 34.possibly armed with nailgun. "Ladies" will always make me think of Jean Harris' prison memoir."They Always Call Us Ladies" And the group home I used to live in. Because I made a Big Deal about no longer being a girl. So I got Jean Harris instead. Sigh. But I still say if all the other apartments were full of women, and there were 2 guys, they wouldn't make them "the boys"

Heh. With teams named after bees, wasps, and the like, I always think they should go for biological accuracy. Make the women's team the Yellow Jackets and men's team the Doomed Stingerless Drones.

It's my turn to fangirl!

OMG amych is so hot.

This talk of, 'just because The Lady Vols do it doesn't make it OK' reminds me of the Washington Redskins. WTF is up with that name? I bristle every time I hear it. Not enough to, you know, actually do anything about it but sheesh! What century is this?

On the other hand it was only recently that I found out "midget" is as bad a derogatory term as any. My edumacation never ends.

In other news, I'm glad "Flipping Out" is over. I was beginning to become obsessed with the L.A. real estate market. And Psycho Jeff...

Just think of us as your... bra, that's how supportive we are. A big, frilly-lace, underwire, half-a-dozen stays, strapping into battle armor, anti-sag device. Also, w00t, getting married!

Love this like whoa!

Oh, I also use ladies when I'm at the juvenile hall, which cracks DF up. When they start getting too wild, I'll say, "Okay ladies, let's bring it down a notch." And it works!

On the other hand it was only recently that I found out "midget" is as bad a derogatory term as any.

DF says the appropriate terminology is "little person," but sometimes she lies.

I believe that is preferred by most little people, yes. Somewhere there is an Indian team that plays as the Whiteys, complete with Colonel Sanders-like mascot.

According to "Little People, Big World," either "little person" or "dwarf" is appropriate, with "little person" or "LP" seeming to be preferred.

But I still say if all the other apartments were full of women, and there were 2 guys, they wouldn't make them "the boys"

there have been a few groups of males in my life referred to as "the boys". There's some friends of D's dad who live together who everybody seems to call "the boys". When we had two guy roommates sharing a room in our house we called them "the boys" (but also, "Los Hermanos" and "those dickheads"). And among my group of close friends in Chicago, a lot of the time we referred to our husbands as "the boys" especially when they were building slot cars or model rockets.