It's odd how many people 'just don't get it'...most women don't want to be called 'chick', 'babe', 'hon', 'girl', etc., by anyone with whom they are not intimate.

It's one thing for my husband to call me 'babe', it's another for a man on the street to do so. The implication is that the man on the street feels it's acceptable to call me 'babe', because all I represent to him is 'female' and with luck, 'available'.

However:

Woman/Women, followed by a collective 'Ladies' (rather than 'girls', or 'chicks' or 'gals').

YMMV .

East Hill