# Girls smelling each others' hair **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462 "2013-10-17T03:50:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462/21 "2013-10-17T18:21:16Z")
^i read his post picturing him in one of Hef’s robes, with a pipe in one hand and a snifter of Courvoisier in the other. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462/22 "2013-10-17T20:25:38Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > You do not get to choose how another person responds to words, and etymological debate does not answer the question of why someone else may be offended by your word choice. By the same token, the few people getting offended over it do not get to eliminate a standard and benign word from the English language. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462/23 "2013-10-17T21:12:53Z")
Oh, it shouldn’t be eliminated. It’s just that “females” is used typically by biologists, cops, teenage boys, or men who seem to perceive women as being of another species. So it tends to make some women wary. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462/24 "2013-10-17T21:33:53Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > By the same token, the few people getting offended over it do not get to eliminate a standard and benign word from the English language. There’s nothing wrong with the word female. It’s not the word. It’s the people who use it. There’s something about creepy, socially subnormal guys that makes them refer to women as females. Use it with care or people will think you’re one of them. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462/25 "2013-10-17T21:41:34Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Oh, and if hair smells good, I may take a sniff. I may say, “Mmm…your hair smells fantastic!” Can’t say as it’s ever lead to bra clad pillow rights, though. And if a man smells fantastic, I’ll say the same. Still no pillow fights. Maybe I’m doing it wrong. Gotta take your shirt off. It’s really that simple- take off shirt, swing pillow. Sexy pillowfighting ensues. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462/26 "2013-10-17T21:51:00Z")
So female only in clinical settings. How are you ladies with “moist?” ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462/27 "2013-10-17T22:09:08Z")
> [@The Great Sun Jester](#): > > How are you ladies with “moist?” Right around “yogurt,” “kumquat,” and “panties,” for me. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462/28 "2013-10-17T22:31:41Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Right around “yogurt,” “kumquat,” and “panties,” for me. I get the “moist panties,” but I don’t get “moist yogurt”. And “kumquat” doesn’t need any moistening, that’s fer sure. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462/29 "2013-10-17T22:34:09Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > I get the “moist panties,” [ORLY?](http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1069&bih=737&tbm=isch&tbnid=CM7G9Ns-p_-z-M:&imgrefurl=http://freakoutnation.com/2012/05/17/another-good-reason-to-vote-democrat-breitbart-com-morphs-into-a-birther-site-traffic-goes-up-82/orly-2/&docid=FtTFSyvuXninCM&imgurl=http://freakoutnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Orly1.jpg&w=400&h=300&ei=vmVgUumCDIKxiwKs0oG4CQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=203&page=1&tbnh=139&tbnw=183&start=0&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:88&tx=114&ty=124) ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462/30 "2013-10-17T22:46:07Z")
They’re all figments of your imagination, just tell them to stop. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462/31 "2013-10-17T22:56:55Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Oh, it shouldn’t be eliminated. It’s just that “females” is used typically by biologists, cops, teenage boys, or men who seem to perceive women as being of another species. So it tends to make some women wary. And MRAs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-smelling-each-others-hair/671462.md?page=1)