What do u think of when someone refers to a woman or girl as a chick?

I am not easily offended by stuff like that, unless I think they mean it to be derogatory. I have a male friend who always uses the word chick, and he doesn't think anything of it, it's not an insult or anything. He refers to his girlfriend as his chick, I think it's kind of funny. There is only one word I do not ever want to be called...it starts with a C, other than that I don't care, as long as, like I said, it's not meant in a derogatory way.

My definition of chick, is a small baby chicken also very cute!

and i do not like being referred to a chicken lol

i refer to myself as a chick.

ha, few months ago this old man (i'm talkin' around 75-80) called me "toots"... i about fell over. Too funny.

you'd really have to make quite an effort to offend me.

I don't really mind. there's only really one female term that offends me and it's an older one "Brawd" (Sp?) Some how it just sounds insulting. When I hear it I think of a Cow.

Ok, so I am not the only one who thinks this person is getting a bit to serious about it. I refered to someone else as a chick. Most def not in a derogatory sense, but it was taken as such. I have no prob being called a chick, in fact I would prob welcome it cause I take it to be a positive name.

Someone actually got upset about being called a chick? Imagine if you'd called her a broad! LOL She needs to just relax, sounds a little bit too serious to me.:eek:

I agree about it being a positive name, it's just fun, there are so many worse things you could be called.:eek:

Ok, so I am not the only one who thinks this person is getting a bit to serious about it. I refered to someone else as a chick. Most def not in a derogatory sense, but it was taken as such. I have no prob being called a chick, in fact I would prob welcome it cause I take it to be a positive name.

It doesn't bother me.

I refer to myself as being a chick too... :-) Not really.

Though from a male perspective, it seems that the use of the word chick is like treating a woman as a "tool" of some sort... which is what I think a lot of typical males think of females a lot of the time.

Chick's are cool. Women are boring ;) My wife is still my chick:D

My girlfriend would kill me, if i refered to her as a chick.:( I would just tell her to lighten up. he he he :)

I guess it could be rude.

what about "babe"?

what about "babe"?Ugh! Now that one bugs me. Some people here in this part of the USA have a bad habit of referring to people as "baby" :eyebrow: which bugs the living CRAP out of me. I was raised in an area where nobody would ever dream of calling anyone other than a lover or a child "baby", unless they were hitting on someone, to which the proper response would have been "I am not your f-ing baby!" (I actually had phrase as a helmet sticker when I was still riding) :D.

It REALLY bugs me when a waitress or someone like that refers to only my BDH as "baby" or "babe" :mad:...um, hello, is he YOUR baby? How rude!

Chick does not really faze me, though. If anybody actually called me a chick at my age, I might even be flattered! There are more derogatory male-towards-female phrases IMHO. I find things like being called "little lady" :eyebrow: more insulting.

Shoot, I am not that little and I am no "lady"...I have too many rough edges to fit the description "lady". I am just female, ya know?

i forgot all about "broad"... yeah, that one would tick me off.

"broad" sounds terrible.

I agree, their are more derogatory references to females than males. Another of many double standards.

I think of a woman in leather pants, tattooed arms, cigarette hanging out the mouth, wild blonde hair sticking out everywhere, with a beer in her hands....wait, I think I just described myself...:eek: