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I think it really depends on the situation. For example, I went to pick up some keys at a storage facility for my roomate a little while back. I was waiting in the lobby since the woman I needed to talk to was on the phone, and one of her coworkers walked by and said something like "You know there's a girl out here waiting for you right?" In that situation it did bother me because I felt like they were not taking me seriously as someone there to do any business with them.
However, I'm in rehearsals right now for a show, and the music director is a charming and lively man elderly man who is in his 80's. It is just a part of his personality to call the woman's section "girls" as we rehearse, something like "Hey girls, that sounds great!" and for him it works because you know it's just the way he speaks, and probably has been for the past however many years.
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"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides"
-Carl Sagan
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