Let women be women

Don't you find it a bit weird that society often refers to women between the age of 20-40 'girl'? I'm a big fan of the Golden Girls (RIP) and we'll let the name slide since it uses a nice bit of alliteration. But that's the last time anyone should refer to women as girls. Let's leave that in the 80s. We live in a world that loves to diminish and infantilise women. You know, shave off all body hair like a little girl, take on your husband's name, be quiet, pretty and agreeable, don't take up too much space, wear clothing that's hard to move in etc. etc. This common labelling of grown women as 'girl' is just another iteration of this. Calling any female from the age of 20-40 'woman' feels odd - yet that's literally what they are! Why is it that we feel more comfortable with the connotations of being a 'girl' but not a 'woman'. It's like everyone is a 'girl' up until they reach perimenopause and then we drop them into 'woman' territory. What's up with that? I talk about my own personal boycotting of the label 'girl' for anyone over 20. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.