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"You can be my girl I can be your man" is the line in a Pitbull song. Is it sexist to use "girl" and "man" as equivalents instead of using either "woman" and "man" or "girl" and "boy"?

I think it's contextual. Calling a woman a "girl" can be patronizing or it can be endearing. Less talked about is that the same is true of calling a man a "boy." It depends on whether the person being called such is okay with it and whether the person doing the calling intends it to be endearing or demeaning. Also I'm under the impression that some women like a strong man who they feel takes charge in a relationship; I am not for such a woman nor is such a woman for me, but nevertheless they exist.

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I think, the general tendency to call adult women "girls" almost by default when adult men of the same age (or younger) are called men is sexist, but as Zaarin said, there is a level of context needed.

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I agree, and also, I read the previous message, stupid old board.