Hi, man here. I obviously can’t speak for women, but I can answer your question from my perspective.
“Girl” is a term used for young, inexperienced, non-adult female humans. When you call an adult woman a girl, you imply that she, her thoughts, and opinions are juvenile, and therefore are not to be taken as seriously as those of an adult. It’s called “infantilizing” and is disrespectful to that women, and realistically to all women.
For a moment, imagine you’re with another man you don’t know and when you say something, he contradicts you and begins to address you as “boy” or “son” in his response. His intent is to diminish you as a person and make you feel small, inferior or less a man or expert as him.
Now, I don’t know what country you come from or if English is your first language; this cultural aspect can apply to other English speaking countries, but specifically I’m talking about the US. One could certainly be forgiven for speaking English as a second language or not being from the US and not knowing this specific thing. I hope this helps.
Read your responses and read mine. Who’s who? You keep insulting me for no reason, your “reason” is that i used the word girl, in a general, correct context… You see how ridiculous are you acting or not?
Hi, man here. I obviously can’t speak for women, but I can answer your question from my perspective.
“Girl” is a term used for young, inexperienced, non-adult female humans. When you call an adult woman a girl, you imply that she, her thoughts, and opinions are juvenile, and therefore are not to be taken as seriously as those of an adult. It’s called “infantilizing” and is disrespectful to that women, and realistically to all women.
For a moment, imagine you’re with another man you don’t know and when you say something, he contradicts you and begins to address you as “boy” or “son” in his response. His intent is to diminish you as a person and make you feel small, inferior or less a man or expert as him.
Now, I don’t know what country you come from or if English is your first language; this cultural aspect can apply to other English speaking countries, but specifically I’m talking about the US. One could certainly be forgiven for speaking English as a second language or not being from the US and not knowing this specific thing. I hope this helps.
And now you’re insulting me for no reason… well done white knight
Oh, you ARE an asshole on purpose. This all makes much more sense
Read your responses and read mine. Who’s who? You keep insulting me for no reason, your “reason” is that i used the word girl, in a general, correct context… You see how ridiculous are you acting or not?
Well written. To add: “Boy” coming from a white person to a black man is even more offensive, what with all the chattel slavery history and whatnot.
You know damn well this isn’t the same in the slightest
He specifically mentioned “in the context of the US”.
If he had been talking about any other English-speaking country, I’d say it would be somewhat irrelevant.
But it most certainly isn’t when talking about the US, especially southern US.