I shall now blog. While in the car just now, my rather long train of thoughts led me to a rather interesting topic. In today's world, the terms "BF (boyfriend)", "GF (girlfriend)" and "BGR (boy[friend]-girl[friend] relationship)" are rather common. What is funny though, is that when teenagers reach adulthood (21 in singapore), they are no longer known as boys and girls. Even during teenage years they are addressed as young men and women. Using this as a basis for my argument, I am pushing for a change in terminology. I shall introduce my new terms.

1. MF - ManFriend
2. WF - WomanFriend
3. MWR - ManWomanRelationship
4. MGR - ManGirlRelationship
5. BWR - BoyWomanRelationship

I think with these new terms, conversations will be a lot more interesting. For one, people will actually pay attention to you when you mention your better half. For instance, "Oh yesterday my boyfriend took me to Sentosa" VS "yesterday my MANFRIEND took me to VolcanoLand". I personally feel the latter draws much more attention, and is thus more effective in speech. Experts are also always saying how men demand respect in a relationship while women demand ... something or other (female readers kindly answer this in the tagboard and I'll edit the post ASAP thx). By calling your "boyfriend" a manfriend, you are obviously showing tremendous respect for his masculinity and maturity. On the other hand, when you call your girlfriend a womanfriend, it shows her rights to free drinks at St James Powerhouse on Ladies night.

I very much hope that you will follow my recommendation.