When does a girl become a woman?

ahtfulal84

At what point would you call a girl a woman?

I like calling them girls regardless of their age.

How do you go about it?

Wacker The Attacker

when her fanny opens

Frosty McSnowballs

No string = Girl
String = Woman
G string = my kinda woman

Wacker The Attacker

Senor Jingle Balls wrote: »

No string = Girl
String = Woman
G string = my kinda woman

Barbers adagio for G string = right kinky

cantdecide

Soon

Banjo String

Sh1tbag OToole

In Cork girls stay girls and boys stay boys for life.

bnagrrl

I'm nearly 30 and HATE when people call me a woman. It makes me feel so old. I'm a girl!

cantdecide

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

In Cork girls stay girls and boys stay boys for life.

I worked with a guy for a couple of years who referred to any female younger than him as a "girl". Anyone older than him was a woman! He was 50 odd.

Frank Black

ahtfulal84 wrote: »

At what point would you call a girl a woman?

After I've had sex with her.

lucky333

ahtfulal84 wrote: »

At what point would you call a girl a woman?

I like calling them girls regardless of their age.

How do you go about it?

The first time she gets her heart broken by a boy/man..

downonthefarm

If there's grass on the wicket
let's play cricket

Muise...

I avoided the question by becoming a lady instead.

biko

Whatever age Britney almost was in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlV7RhT6zHs

Seedy Arling

Every Tuesday.

anncoates

ahtfulal84 wrote: »

At what point would you call a girl a woman?

Soon.

Cliona99

18.

(and ffs! )

justforlaugh

At what point would you call a girl a woman

A girl cant give birth, a woman can... so i say 13, 14ish

dd972

When Gary Glitter fails to notice her in the street

hatrickpatrick

A lot of women find it offensive when lads use the word "girl" o describe an adult, but I think the issue is that there's no commonly used casual word for women (like "lads" or "guys") in cases where the words "man" or "woman" sound too formal.

jantheman91

When her ball's drop.

suicide_circus

When they take responsibility for their actions and cease using tears as a weapon

FizzleSticks

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mdwexford

35.

shanered

She'll know, just like when a hill turns into a mountain.

Devil08

When she's finished the hoovering

'Good woman, now get me my slippers'

Cookie_Monster

reading game of thrones at the moment and struggling to figure it out. They're a girl until the have their flowering, a maid after that until they lose their maidenhood and either a lady, whore or wench from then on. Woman doesn't seem to come into it at any point...

andyman

After she develops them tig ol' bitties!

Lou.m

Peados the lot of you

Legally 18 ..it is when she becomes an adult.

The age of informed consent is 17 ...so around then..

Figuratively speaking it is an ongoing process i think.

Interesting question when will you boys grow up?

Joking rebuttals demonstrating juvenile attitudes will prove my point.

SparkySpitfire

When I talk about males 16-30 I'd refer to them as guys or lads... what are you supposed to call females? Dolls and lassies?

It's annoying cos girl and woman are loaded either way. And I wouldn't refer to my female friends as "the ladies" like you'd say "I'm going pub with the lads".

MadsL

Girls: 14 looking 18 acting 21
Boys: 21 looking 18 acting 14

Legs.Eleven

Someone mentioned it before that there's no word like "guy" or "lad" for women so we're stuck with girl. Doesn't bother me to be called a girl but I prefer woman as I feel like one at 33 years old. I wouldn't feel offended by it.

Here in Spain they've "chica" for a girl/woman and "chico" for boy, which are kind of inbetweeny words that we don't have for both genders in English (Lass?), so I call other girls/women from teens to my age chicas, which just saves a lot of bother.

We really need an inbetweeny word.

Dolbert

bnagrrl wrote: »

I'm nearly 30 and HATE when people call me a woman. It makes me feel so old. I'm a girl!

I'm 30 and dislike being called a girl. I don't get what's so wrong with being called a woman, I hate to break it to you but you've been one since you were 18! I'm married and mortgaged with pets and a full-time job, if I am old enough for those things why on earth would I object to being called an adult woman?

dr strangelove

I absolutely hate being called a girl - I'm 45.


And a man.


Maybe time to start taking it easy on the heels and fake bewbs.

bnt

In primitive tribes a girl was a woman after puberty, and you can still see this in traditions such as the Jewish Bat Mitzvah. After reaching the age of 12, a girl undergoes the ceremony, is proclaimed a woman and (under Jewish law) is able to marry and have children. For boys the age of Bar Mitzvah is 13. These days, of course, you don't see 12-year-old Jewish girls getting married to 13-year-old Jewish boys, so what has changed?

These days we recognise that there's a big gap between physical maturity and mental / emotional maturity. Imagine being a 13-year-old girl in a desert tribe, a thousand years ago: your value to the tribe was pretty much limited to your womb. You could produce children to bolster the tribe, or perhaps be married off to another tribe to cement a treaty. If you had a child at the age of 13, you weren't fending for it and yourself on your own: you had the tribe supporting you all the way. ("It takes a village to raise a child" and all that.) Your mental and / or emotional maturity was pretty much irrelevant back then: if you could breed, and work in the fields etc., that was all that was expected of you.

So the answer to the question is "it depends on what you expect". Procreation? After puberty. Intellectual & emotional maturity? Wait a few years ...

my teapot is orange

I think boys get called men quicker than girls get called women. Males in their 20's are often referred to as men. I once got laughed at for calling myself a woman at 28, like I had inflated my status or something. You've got to ignore pathetic sexist attempts to keep you in your place.

Precious flower

Don't mind being called ''girl'' just not ''Good girl'' that makes me shudder. Call me ''good woman'' instead, ''good girl'' sounds creepy, and old men say it all the time in that creepy old man Irish country accent! Sounds way less creepy in Irish though.

RoboRat

According to game of thrones, when she 'flowers'

Yellow121

Precious flower wrote: »

Don't mind being called ''girl'' just not ''Good girl'' that makes me shudder. Call me ''good woman'' instead, ''good girl'' sounds creepy, and old men say it all the time in that creepy old man Irish country accent! Sounds way less creepy in Irish though.

Don't worry, I'll just rub your back to make you feel comfortable, good girll.

Ficheall

my teapot is orange wrote: »

I think boys get called men quicker than girls get called women. Males in their 20's are often referred to as men. I once got laughed at for calling myself a woman at 28, like I had inflated my status or something. You've got to ignore pathetic sexist attempts to keep you in your place.

Of course. It's the patriarchy's attempt to keep you in check.
Are you sure the reason you were laughed at was that you called yourself a woman?

WilyCoyote

When she's 18 or whenever she comfortable with being poked. Whichever comes first.

my teapot is orange

Ficheall wrote: »

Of course. It's the patriarchy's attempt to keep you in check.
Are you sure the reason you were laughed at was that you called yourself a woman?

Yes, they repeated the word "woman" as they were laughing and the last bits a very childish dig.

Precious flower

Precious flower wrote: »

Don't mind being called ''girl'' just not ''Good girl'' that makes me shudder. Call me ''good woman'' instead, ''good girl'' sounds creepy, and old men say it all the time in that creepy old man Irish country accent! Sounds way less creepy in Irish though.

When you're very petite, you get to be called a 'Good llittle girl!'

I might be small, but I'm not a little girl.

Precious flower

Candie wrote: »

When you're very petite, you get to be called a 'Good llittle girl!'

I might be small, but I'm not a little girl.

I'm only 5ft if that, but thankfully I've never been referred to as a ''Good little girl'' yet....yet!! God, that's even worse I'm not sure how you put up with that! I just find it's so creepy!

Meangadh

Yeah "good girl" is rotten once you're over the age of 12. Just way too creepy. I don't mind "good woman" though.

I don't care whether someone calls me a girl or a woman though, it's a bit of a silly thing to get worked up about. I'm in my thirties and I'd still call my female friends "the girls" and my male friends "the boys". It's just a term.

RDM_83 again

Not too sure about it? Thats why us sexist b@stards call woman/girls females (joke!)

Seriously though why read to much into what word someone uses for you, I got called Pet a while ago by a shop girl I was a few years older than and a foot taller than

jantheman91

You've very little bothering you if being called a ''good little girl'' is something to chirp about.

I'm sure there are more than one or two grown men who would be irritated at being called a 'good little boy' in a professional setting, completely seriously.

Bothering me on an epic level? No. Something I could live without? Definitely.

Mint Aero

When do they become ladies? Very few ladies about anymore.

cantdecide

Not completely off topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMIxnF_n4lk

Y2KBOS86

When they are older than 23.

Annoys me when group of females in their early 30's are called girls.

They haven't been girls for a long time