Whenever I hear such stuff in an office setting I usually say something
like, "You must mean women, because child labor law does not allow us to
hire girls." This usually scares 'em into at least changing the rhetoric.
For a while they even roll their eyes when they say "women." But that
eventually changes too.
I have also noticed that young women are using the word "girl" to refer to
themselves, like my grandmother and her friends do. Bye, bye second wave.
Randi Zimmerman
"In the process of infinate beginnings, even immortality is mortal."
-- Trinh T. Minh-ha
