Would you look at the lobes on that 🥰

Now we know. Knowledge equals profit after-all.

That's amazing

"yeah man, same. I got two females at home and let me tell ya"

I’m going to adopt that as a personal reading rule, right up there with “if the headline ends with a question mark, the answer is no.”

I've been recently trying to phase my usage of "girls" out when referring to women, because it's unintentionally belittling. I've settled on just saying "woman" when referring to an adult woman in general.

Of course, if you're referring to a woman in person, you need to refer to her as "milady" and tip your hat. That's just basic etiquette.

Girl is a child. Woman is an adult. Young woman if it's vaguely in between.

Female if you're doing medicine or science.

The girl lost her doll. The woman paid her taxes. The young women got dropped off at the movies. The female puffin lays one egg per season and shares the burden of caring for the puffling equally with their mate.

"Ladies"

Speaking generously, I can see what you mean. But I think people only have this problem when they are used to calling people “girls” far too long. If you shake that bad habit, you won’t find yourself coming into conflict with these terms so often.

May I suggest the term “young women” as a highly respectful way to refer to younger folks. And if you are truly in doubt or referring to a mixed group, “ladies” is an alternative too.

I don’t recommend “chicks.” Some people are okay with it but many are not. A chick is a newly hatched bird, so this is quite infantilizing.

Female is a great adjective and a poor noun.

Female birds generally have less colorful plumage than male birds.

Female is fine. Females is very often used in a problematic way.

Give that bitch some respect. Bitches love respect.