"Ride like a girl"... How do you feel about that?

[bounceswoosh]

It never occurred to me that RLAG as a brand marketing phrase was insulting.

....BUT just last week, I commented to another woman at work, that where we work now, is the first time in many years, that men at our workplace refer to women as "girls". Not all guys, but enough. Other workplaces where I've been, less guys or hardly guys seem to use girls for "women" or ladies in the workplace.

I don't understand why any man in a workplace would have legitimate occasion to refer to the women at the company as such. I don't say, "Here's my team lead <name>; as you can see, he's a guy." Nor would I expect him to say, "You should talk to Monique about this; she's a girl." Maybe I'm being obtuse. When would this even come up?