why don't girls these days like being called ''birds''?

'bird' is hardly a derogatory name for a woman, get over it.

any pet name is derogatory if you don't the person. it's belittling and disrespectful. and no i won't 'get over it'.

No it's not. Where i'm from bird translates directly into woman, the words are interchangeable. It's not about giving you a pet name or anything, bird is just what women are called. Very rarely will anyone refer to a woman as a bird as a name, it's not like calling someone toots or something. You must have an easy life if this is the sort of thing that keeps you awake at night.

doesn't keep me awake. it's just the kind of thing that's going to result in a guy getting hurt if he dares to call me by anything other than the terms i've just listed.

I see you're one of those girls. In Yorkshire some bar maids have taken their managers to court because customers have called them 'luv', a term used for hundreds of years. It's just pathetic really.

How come? As far as i can tell, it carries no intentional sexist connotations and in no way demeans women's abilities. It is just an affection term for women. I've always used it personally but on tsr i've noticed a lot of you don't like it. What is your reasoning?

These days? I don't think girls ever liked being called "birds". Firstly, us girls don't have wings so we're not birds. Secondly, it just sounds a bit cheap really. You wouldn't expect a nice gentleman to refer to females as birds. When I think of a lad saying the word bird in reference to a female, I always picture a really chavvy lad.

well for a start; most birds smell, they have lice, and they crap on the floor of their own home.

doesn't keep me awake. it's just the kind of thing that's going to result in a guy getting hurt if he dares to call me by anything other than the terms i've just listed.

kklol - the hariest and fattest of all the trolls.Since Sophie3 Piss off.

no, im not a girl, im a woman. i don't see why i should settle for being called something i don't like when it's no more difficult for people to call you something respectful. I'm sure black men or working class men wouldn't appreciate being called 'boy' by someone upper class (or just white in the former case) because it's derogatory even if it's not out and out offensive.

Definitions of derogatory on the Web:
derogative: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
So there you go, it's how it's said rather than what is said. Bird is the same as woman, just like bloke is for man. If these sorts of things bother you even when they aren't said in mallice then you need to get a life, and fast! The way you're behaving I think being called a bird should be the least of your worries.