If you get called 'girlie' by a heterosexual male in Australia, it demonstrates he is superior. I was on an interview panel where a poor guy didn't realise he had this habit, and called two of the interview panel 'girlie' - he got a special debriefing on being polite to one's superiors. It didn't cost him the job: other things cost him the job - he was way underqualified. It was part of a mind set he had, as someone to whom things came - he didn't need to fill all the selection requirements and he called females 'girlie.'