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⌈ Secret Post #6872 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I have a kind of theory on this but I'm too tired and out of it right now to really explain it coherently so I apologize in advance. But I sometimes see even adult women describe themselves as "female" instead of "woman" and I think a lot of it is that society values women more highly if they're young/attractive. And a lot of people see the term woman as indicating that the person is older, so they use girl, or if they want to avoid using girl they use female instead. Men don't have nearly as much of a stigma with aging so no one cares about calling an adult male, a man. In fact "boy" is generally dropped young, you're just not usually going to see someone describe a 23-year-old male as a "boy"

ALSO there isn't, like, a kind of age-neutral term for women. Men have "guy" and maybe even "dude" that aren't super age restrictive. Most people probably aren't going to use "guy" for an 80-year-old man, but you could easily see it used for someone in their 20s or their 50s. There really isn't an equivalent with women.

[(Anonymous)]

Like on Reddit I'll see posters describe themselves as an "x-year-old female" when they're an adult and could say woman but seem to not want to

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, just personally, in my mid-30s, I’m happy referring to myself as an adult, but I still feel weird about calling myself a woman. While I’m not scared of being old, I don’t feel like a “woman”. I’m sure that’s partially about a sense of immaturity and partially about a sense of failing to meet gendered expectations. At least from the outside, “guy” seems like it has a lot less baggage.

[(Anonymous)]

Ladies are of any adult-ish age though. 30 year old lady. 40 year old lady. 50 year old lady. I default to that.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm annoyed that "male" and "female" took on such a chud reputation because male/female is pretty handy when you want to be inclusive of all ages (girl/woman), classes (lady) and still want to be formal/professional (gal/bitches).

Especially as we seem to be doing a push for a greater differentiation between girl/woman with terms like "under age girl." All girls are under age! Idk, some 20-somethings are girls even if they are women.

One more thing misogynists took from me ::shakes fist at sky::