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I am 32, but most of the time I still feel like I am 16. I do not care to be referred to as girl, especially by males. I think my dad sneering "little girl" at me as I was growing up is largely responsible for this. Ma'am and lady are out as well. I do not feel quite old enough to be called ma'am and a lady, to me, is someone who is prim and proper (neither of which describes me). I prefer woman to anything else. Having said all of this, I find myself referring to other women as girls or ladies. I am a full time student atm and I refer to the ladies in my summer class as girls. When I was was working, I called those women ladies. Strange how I use terms for others that I do not care to be used on me.
At the end of the day, girl IS just a word. However, so are the racial slurs that people so carelessly toss around. I believe, like many of the other women here, that the context in which girl is used will determine how a woman reacts to the word.
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