[goobleberry]

wow. people really over think things. seriously.

the reason why people get so ""affected"by "ingrained stereotypes" is because they spend too much time sitting around thinking about things to be affected and insulted by. honestly. it's ridiculous.

[CallMeProtart]

I think it's just a way of describing the little adult that is in all of them. For DD it meant calling her 'Little Miss' at those times, and for DS it's 'Little Man'. I still call them both baby boy/baby girl at times when that's what I'm feeling about them too.

[CocobeanLillylov...]

Yeah, interesting topic.

I feel it's along patriarchal lines, and due to more importance being placed on becoming a man than a woman.

As an aside- I have been retraining myself in the way I address groups of women as a way of taking back the concept of "womanhood". I became increasingly aware through my studies (and a FB group for my all-female student colleagues) that everyone always addresses groups of women with things like- "Hi girls" "Hi ladies" "Hey guys", but never as women. Well, we aren't girls, we're certainly not guys, and ladies has particular anti-feminist connotations that I've only begun to be aware of.

So long story short I'm now addressing groups of women as exactly that, "women". I now fail to understand why no one actually refers to women as women.

Does anyone actually ever address groups of men as "Hello men"??

[BetteBoop]

wow. people really over think things. seriously.

the reason why people get so ""affected"by "ingrained stereotypes" is because they spend too much time sitting around thinking about things to be affected and insulted by. honestly. it's ridiculous.

You're right. There are no ingrained gender stereotypes at all. In fact, there's no sexism. Boys prefer blue and girls prefer pink because of biology.

Either that, or you're under thinking it.

[peebs]

We sometimes refer to our unborn DS as 'little man' (along 'little boy' and 'little monkey' and a million other things). Didn't realise I was already offending people.

Does anyone actually ever address groups of men as "Hello men"??

That's exactly what I was thinking.

[codex]

Sometimes we need to question ingrained societal habits, otherwise how would we change?
I never questioned calling grass trees 'black boys' or wood burls 'nigger heads' until I was old enough to realise what I was saying.

Those might be very obvious examples but it doesn't hurt to question the norm every now and again and ask why little man rolls off the tongue more easily than little woman.

[Romeo Void]

I call DD little woman and DS little man.

[la di dah]

Does anyone actually ever address groups of men as "Hello men"??

Sounds like something out of WWII, doesn't it?

[Maple Leaf]

I can't stand the term "little man".

[Indi]

Another one who hates the term "little man". No, he is a child, a boy, not a small adult.