maleficent

Every so often my evil feminist side shows thru. The term "girl" bothers me when it's being applied to a person of the female gender over age 22 (and 22 I'm using as the cutoff, because that's the age where a person is done with college and is more than likely on their own.) Not many people would refer to a person of the male gender in the same situation as a boy (well, I would, but it's a term of endearment, I call my 50 year old colleagues boys)

Men of that age, are either called men or guys. There is no equivelent term for a female for guy - so we're left with women or girl. My nieces are girls -- they're aged 12 and 7, I'd have a hard time referring to myself as a girl because I'm surely not that young.

Girls, seem to be trying to figure out who they are, women, hopefully have gotten this figured out already.

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