Anyone else weirded out when people consistently use the word “man,” but not the word “woman?”

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[–]catawampus[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

“Girls” is often used as an umbrella term for women and girls nowadays, what do you think of that? I wonder if it’s due to the fact that society prefers younger women to older women or the infantilization of women. I, myself, had a huge self image problem for a while due to the perceived pressure from society to look younger.

I agree that everyone using “female” isn’t saying it with malicious intent.

More importantly, after the reddit ban, I think it’s important not to police people’s speech, to an extent, but I do think it’s good to observe the intent with which people use words.

[–]LesbianOutlaw 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

“Girls” is often used as an umbrella term for women and girls nowadays, what do you think of that?

I try to refrain from referring to adult females as “girls” because I find it to be an attempt at infantalizing women. Society does not do this same thing to men; while men are sometimes referred to as “boys” it is quite rare and usually only done in the context of pointing out the immaturity of a group of men. Calling women “girls” further feeds into the misogynistic belief that women are mentally children and need to be taken care of by a father/husband/brother/the state.