Women being called girls

snubbleste · 31-10-2016 05:10PM #1

What age does it stop? You are a girl or boy until 18, then you are a woman or a man.
A garda and a judge refer to women aged 21, 22, 23, 30 as 'girls'. How is this possible?
If they were men, they would not be called boys at those ages.
Why is this acceptable?

#genderdiscriminatory

frag420 · 31-10-2016 05:13PM

Get back in the kitchen....

petes · 31-10-2016 05:14PM

snubbleste wrote: »

What age does it stop? You are a girl or boy until 18, then you are a woman or a man.
A garda and a judge refer to women aged 21, 22, 23, 30 as 'girls'. How is this possible?
If they were men, they would not be called boys at those ages.
Why is this acceptable?

#genderdiscriminatory

Don't know really, I'd still refer to a woman as a girl. Wouldn't refer to a man as a boy though.

MRnotlob606 · 31-10-2016 05:14PM

I once brought a frog to a session because I found him on road. Good times.

donegal. · 31-10-2016 05:14PM

anyone younger than me is a girl/boy

#stoplookingforinequalitywherethereisnone

Pac1Man · 31-10-2016 05:18PM

Nothing to be worrying about.

I have heard multiple middle aged women refer similarly aged women as 'girl'.

When will this bullsh1t stop? You even have to be careful using the word 'female' now ffs.

mahamageehad · 31-10-2016 05:19PM

I dunno, I know plenty of immature women that I'd refer to as girls. I also know teenagers of refer to as women. Same with men actually. That's for the people I know. For people I don't know, everyone that looks younger than me is a boy or girl and older are women and men.

In many cases people get offended by called grown women "girls" (or females but that's a whole different topic) but if it's old gardaí or judges I'd say it's not meant offensively and is more of a generational thing.

the groutch · 31-10-2016 05:34PM

snubbleste wrote: »

What age does it stop? You are a girl or boy until 18, then you are a woman or a man.
A garda and a judge refer to women aged 21, 22, 23, 30 as 'girls'. How is this possible?
If they were men, they would not be called boys at those ages.
Why is this acceptable?

#genderdiscriminatory

#scrapingthebarrellforwaystobeoffended

darkpagandeath · 31-10-2016 05:38PM

This again....

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-10-2016 05:39PM

My wife is 70 and will refer to 'meeting the girls for coffee' etc.

Don't go looking for offence where there is none to be found.

CINCLANTFLT · 31-10-2016 05:40PM

I've been triggered!

gizmo555 · 31-10-2016 05:42PM

Interesting article on a related topic in today's Guardian:

From "Gone Girl" to "The Girl on the Train" to "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", the author Emily St John Mandel has crunched the numbers on books with “girl” in their title and discovered that the girl is “significantly more likely to end up dead”, if the author of the book is male . . .

. . . Working with research assistants, Mandel analysed the 2,000-plus most popular books with “girl” or “girls” in the title on Goodreads, filtering out those books with 250 or fewer ratings, and removing cookbooks and books for children and young adults. She was left with 810 books.

Mandel discovered that the “girl” books were much more likely to be written by a female author – 79% of the titles were by women. But the “girl” of the title was also much more likely to be an adult than a child, with 65% of the “girls” actually women, 28% girls, and 7% “indeterminate”.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/31/what-happens-to-girls-in-book-titles-emily-st-john-mandel-data-analysis

milehip · 31-10-2016 05:43PM

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

I've been triggered!

Quick lets run to our safe space!!

CINCLANTFLT · 31-10-2016 05:45PM

milehip wrote: »

Quick lets run to our safe space!!

No... that's another one of my triggers!

eviltwin · 31-10-2016 05:46PM

Depends on the context. We had an inspection in work last week and one of the group who was in his twenties called me and my boss, aged 39 and 56, good girls. It wasn't offensive but it was a bit weird.

Westernyelp · 31-10-2016 05:46PM

You can have a girlfriend of any age or boyfriend for that matter

9or10 · 31-10-2016 05:47PM

I'm offended. :mad:

What was it again.

CINCLANTFLT · 31-10-2016 05:47PM

9or10 wrote: »

I'm offended. :mad:

What was it again.

I'm offended that your offended!!!

CINCLANTFLT · 31-10-2016 05:48PM

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

I'm offended that your offended!!!

I'm offended that you used poor grammar... it's you're!!!

clairewithani · 31-10-2016 05:49PM

I always refer to girls as girls as girls till 18. Then they can buy drink, vote, watch porn and smoke legally. After 18 they are women.

Except my daughters. They are girls always.
Because it is better to be a mother of girls than a mother of women.

B.A._Baracus · 31-10-2016 05:49PM

I'll be the one to say it.... Anyone who gets offended by being called a girl needs to get their priorities in check. Plenty worse to be called.

Sure how would a bunch of girls react to being called birds

for one example.
Or a man referring to his girl as his moth....

darkpagandeath · 31-10-2016 05:53PM

https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/social-justice-warriors-fails-idiots-6.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600

Commotion Ocean · 31-10-2016 05:56PM

What about clothes shops that politely call the female section "ladies" but the male section gets the lesser title of "men"? Why not gentlemen? Is that sexist too?

Oh sorry, I forgot, you can't be sexist towards men.

Pawwed Rig · 31-10-2016 05:56PM

I asked the girls in my office this very question due to a similar thread and the unanimous concensus was that they preferred to be called girls than women/ladies/females. I would bet that, as usual, the vast majority do not care with only the terminally offended having an issue.

Boy, lad, mate, dude, bud, man, chief couldn't care less.

lertsnim · 31-10-2016 06:02PM

snubbleste wrote: »

What age does it stop? You are a girl or boy until 18, then you are a woman or a man.
A garda and a judge refer to women aged 21, 22, 23, 30 as 'girls'. How is this possible?
If they were men, they would not be called boys at those ages.
Why is this acceptable?

#genderdiscriminatory

Stop looking for something to be outraged about.

Richard Hillman · 31-10-2016 06:11PM

My favourite Beyonce lyrics are "Who run the world? Girls!".

As a proud sexist and misogynist, I enjoy these lyrics. It keeps women in their place.

irishguitarlad · 31-10-2016 06:20PM

I'm just a white male privileged sexist racist **** who is at fault for every single problem in the world so my opinion doesn't count.

milehip · 31-10-2016 06:25PM

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

No... that's another one of my triggers!

Actually your use of the phrase 'triggered' is a cultural appropriation so I'll kindly ask you to cease your micro aggressions.

knucklehead6 · 31-10-2016 06:26PM

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

I'm offended that you used poor grammar... it's you're!!!

I'm offended that you are sock puppeting!!

Thought the Commander of the Atlantic Fleet had more class than that. :-(

darkpagandeath · 31-10-2016 06:27PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

My favourite Beyonce lyrics are "Who run the world? Girls!".

As a proud sexist and misogynist, I enjoy these lyrics. It keeps women in their place.

How will they cope.

A woman.
A minority.
Saying something that's a Trigger.

Brain explosion.

Your Face · 31-10-2016 06:27PM

ffs.

Women being called girls

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