Are You a Lady? ?

I don't like being called a woman. It has negative connotations to my mind. Don't mind lady as it's more respectful , but would much prefer to be a girl or a guy!

No lady sounds too old. I rather be called a girl, (and I call my friend girls too) not offensive to me at all! I’m with lovebeige’s MIL here. Sorry to make you cringe Elizabeth!

OakDryad that’s why I suggested its ‘reclamation’

Absolutely not. It is riddled with socially divisive woman who is class association, entitlement and privilege c/f these dictionary definitions (OED):

The female head of a household; a woman who has authority over servants, attendants, or slaves.

A woman who rules over subjects, a queen; a woman to whom obedience or feudal homage is due.

Used when speaking of or to a woman who is of high rank, esp. a member of the nobility.

Prefixed to a title of honour or designation of office as an added mark of respect. Now only in fixed collocations e.g. Lady Mayor.

A woman having the characteristics traditionally associated with high social standing; a refined or genteel woman.

Kim19

Wouldn't bother me particularly. Think woman is my preference.

Another ‘Me too’

But you can’t really say / type ‘what do you women think?’
And it’s not a sexist thing,
because like wise you wouldn’t say ‘what do you men think?’

Or would you?
I’ve always struggled with plurals for people. I hate guys, and find folk the best available word

Galaxy

Ha I have never been a lady. I have done most of what lovebeige has described, except the spitting.

Me too!
I still think that I’m a lady though (well, actually I think that I’m a perpetual 11 year old girl, but that’s another thread)

Unquestionably.

I really dont mind just as long as someone speak to me and isnt rude.

Woman is my preference but would prefer lady to girl, it makes me cringe when older women call themselves girls.

Ha I have never been a lady. I have done most of what lovebeige has described, except the spitting.

I don't mind at all being called a lady. I don't swear in public, get drunk or show my knickers off and never spit. Other criteria must be available.

OTOH my late MIL made a right song and dance about being called a lady, preferring to be called a girl despite surviving to her mid-nineties.

Wouldn't bother me particularly. Think woman is my preference.