Adult human females should be called ‘ women ‘ if only for the sake of consistency in our linguistic practice.

Adult human females should be called ‘ women ‘ if only for the sake of consistency in our linguistic practice. And just to be clear, by ‘ adult, I mean a person 18 years old or older, whether that person is a high school student or a university student or a clerk or a construction worker or whatever. 18 year – old girls have the ability to be mothers, so I don’t see how we can consistently use a non – adult word to talk about them. Likewise , they have the ability to vote , and surely anyone with that ability deserves to be talked about as a grown – up , not a child . Now, don’t get me wrong , I don’t want to go to silly extremes . If you’d rather say ‘ young woman ‘ than just ‘ woman ‘ in some cases, I couldn’t object, since an 18 year – old is certainly young in comparison to most other adults , and if you want to call women ‘ girls ‘ and men ‘ boys ‘ in some circumstances where it’s appropriate as a metaphor , such as when the men are acting boyishly or the women girlishly , then there’s no harm in that either . The main thing to which object is using a word for children as though it literally applied to adults also. I guess that’s the main objection I have : ‘ girl ‘ is a word for a human female child , and to call women girls ‘ is to imply that they are children , which is inaccurate and probably has other negative consequences .

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