That is just bonkers.If you don’t like it, you don’t like it, but that’s not someone else’s problem. I had a young female co-worker for a while. Who came from a large female dominated family. Starting stories with girl this or girl that. I wasn’t a girl, it didn’t hurt my feelings. I always enjoyed talking with her.

Hell I’m from Missouri, where people have been known to use the word dude like they were smurfs.