https://www.bustle.com/articles/182414-why-we-need-to-stop-calling-women-girlsOh, sorry. It's the other way, so somehow, it isn't stupid.
For all her insipid points, here's the one that particularly sticks out:
4. There Is No Male Equivalent
Some might try to argue that we address men as "guys" all the time, but that's not the equivalent to women being called girls. Merriam-Webster defines guy as "man, fellow." There's nothing age-specific about it, so when the word is used on men, it doesn't bear the same patronizing, infantilizing undertones. For women, though, there is no term out there that can serve as a stand-in for "guy." We're simply referred to as girls or women, while men are called boys, then guys, then men.
After high school graduation, you likely won't hear your brother and his friends being called "boys" by anyone other than your mother.1 Have you ever heard your male co-workers called "boys" in an important meeting by their boss, for instance? Doubt it.2 They're called guys or men, neither of which carry a loaded history of sexism.
In fact, if you were to call a group of grown-ass men "boys" when they're going about their lives as adults, they would probably take offense and demand that you take it back.3 Yet they'll turn around a second later and ask "the girls" what they want to drink.4 It's a senseless exchange,5 and it's one that men will never truly understand until it's explained to them6, which is why parents should raise the boys of this next generation to never use this term when talking about women.7
1. Really? No one ever refers to groups of men as "boys"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_of_Summer_(book)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/boys36/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112442/Can I get you boys something?And those are just off the top of my head that I can provide documentation for quickly. Seriously, ma'am, get over yourself.
2. I also doubt that female co-workers are called girls by ANYONE other than other females, given the fear of sexual harassment charges.
3. You think they would? What world does this woman live in?
4. Right. EXACTLY after being called out in this fantasy world you live in, the waiter would call a bunch of women girls. Or the imaginary men that objected to being called boys, would immediately call women girls. Of course.
5. Oh, hey, we agree on something... oh, you weren't meaning the entirety of what you've been typing.
6. No, no. I understand perfectly that you're looking for something innocuous to be offended by since real sexism has been driven from the public square.
7. I'll be raising my boy not to be an idiot, which doesn't entail any kind of stupidity about avoiding offending the perpetually offended.
