drinking age in the us isn’t indicative of maturity. 20 is legally an adult. girls are children. and only aliens and incels call human women females as a noun. please don’t find any more “synonyms”, you’re making it worse.
Im an alien. Maybe its a translation thing, in my native language young women are still called girls, there is nothing condescending to call someone a girl even in her 20s. We call children “litte girl”. I learn new things about amerikan culture every day on lemmy.
Everybody my age and younger is a girl. My age and older is a woman. There’s a little blue around my age. I’m 36. My wife and I, and our husband and wife friend couples, I refer to us as guys and girls.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
*female. I can find even more synonyms if you want.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 years ago
drinking age in the us isn’t indicative of maturity. 20 is legally an adult. girls are children. and only aliens and incels call human women females as a noun. please don’t find any more “synonyms”, you’re making it worse.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Im an alien. Maybe its a translation thing, in my native language young women are still called girls, there is nothing condescending to call someone a girl even in her 20s. We call children “litte girl”. I learn new things about amerikan culture every day on lemmy.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Everybody my age and younger is a girl. My age and older is a woman. There’s a little blue around my age. I’m 36. My wife and I, and our husband and wife friend couples, I refer to us as guys and girls.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 years ago
first of all, friend groups are different. people call their friends “kids” too. that’s different from infantilizing strangers.
second of all, yes, “guys” and “girls”. people don’t call adult strangers boys. yet they do that with women all the time.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
in the US 18 makes you a legal adult, who gives a fuck whether you can drink or not.