Peter

I despise being referred to as a 'girl' either directly or indirectly, singularly or as a group. I am not a child any more, and the connotations of "girl" of an adult woman seem to largely be "likes 'girly' things, by which we mean things that are stupid/pointless/silly or possibly simple 'feminine'". I'll put up with it from my parents, and possibly other people who knew me from infancy (especially those who don't really know *me* but mostly know-of-me as my parents' daughter) because those people have known me as a girl for more time than they have known me as a woman.

I would *prefer* "person" in most contexts.