Did you know the terms boy and girl when referred to adults can mean insulting things including lower class, slave and servant. Many years ago m
my grandfather was appalled when a man was called “boy”, the man in question was black and it was said in that way. I am not black but when its said its usually make the tea/tidy up and other crap jobs. This is why I stick up for myself.

Women to me says can pay her own way, stand up for herself, in control. Girl says stupid, beneath men, silly. Lady says older (50+) delicate in a way I never want to be. When dating I will buy drinks, I will buy meals, 50/50 in my relationships like the song.

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Supposing a woman never gets married or has a baby. Is she a child til she turns 30?

We become young women somewhere in our mid-teens. That doesn’t mean we’re finished learning or growing at that stage, but we are women nonetheless!

I think any human female that has gotten married, had a baby, or turned 30, is a woman. I am a woman on one count and approaching the other two. But you, my dear sister, are definitively a woman .

I’m such a charmer.

Exactly! It’s awful when you think about it.

Thinking about why they used the word “girls”, I realised that “women” is not a word for attractive (read sexually-objectified) females.

That’s because “adult” is not a word for attractive (read sexually-objectified) females We’re already past it, m’dear.