LU: “Single boys are called to the Torah differently than married men?”
Joseph:”Yes.”
That’s really interesting, because when I used to work in a school for intellectual baalei teshuva (who were often from liberal left-wing backgrounds), the students sometimes thought it was chauvinistic that adult females were called girls. We had to explain to them that it had nothing to do with chauvinism since adult males are called boys.
The thing is that by boys, you can also use the word “guys” which has no female equivalent.
So it’s interesting to know that with boys/men, people also make clear differentiations between marrieds and singles. AND these are halachic differences, so they are much stronger and more meaningful.
Which proves that it has nothing to do with chauvinism.