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I still do in my first language. The girls in my closest friend group are 32-45 and boys are 36-47 🤣
In english, I guess I use girls and guys? Only because there isn’t a female form of guys and saying “men and women” sounds too formal for me.
I’ll only do it now during a work meeting if people won’t stop talking, you’d be surprised how quickly an “alright boys and girls let’s settle down” with a hand clap gets people to be quiet lol
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Around when I was 18/19
Lol I still do it in some context. Mostly because I don’t want to admit my youth is slowly disintegrating like a forgotten biscuit in the wind
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I’m 51 and I still vacillate between girls/boys and the gender-neutral “dude”.
My sister still asks me about “boys”. We’re 26 and 29. I usually say men or guys.
I’m in my mid 30s and if I were referring to one of/a group of my friends to someone else I’d say “one of/the girls”. I don’t say boys as much but that’s because locally we just have a different word for it. It wouldn’t feel natural to me to say “the women/the men” about a group I know. If I am speaking in generalities about a gender I will say women or men where appropriate though
I still use ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ and I’m 38!
Does “boys” and “girls” mean the same as homies?
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When I was 20 years old, my mother asked me if l “did ugly things with boys”.
I simply have no words
My closest friends can always be boys and girls. I know them too well to think them adults. Everybody else deserves to be respected as an adult until proven otherwise.
Around when I graduated from college. I noticed super quickly that “girl/s” was often used to refer to women at my workplace, while men were always just called men. I hated it so made a point to never use girl when referring to an adult woman.
Some time in junior high, I think. I can’t remember not hating being called a girl.
Speaking in general, probably by age 20. Speaking of my particular friends, I really still haven’t (I’m 51).
Until someone is 18 years old
lol I always refer to grown men I crush on as “boy/s”
Don’t know why.