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  • #597583
    shlishi
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    Why are 20-something men never called boys but 20-something (and much older) women are called girls?

    #779861
    yossi z.
    Member

    I call any unmarried male a boy (or more properly a bochur)

    😀 Zuberman! 😀

    #779862
    yentingyenta
    Participant

    according to my Mom, any one younger than herself is called a girl 🙂

    personally, ALL men are called GUYS married or single. with the girls/ladies/women i get stuck cuz what do u call a 20 year old female whos married?

    #779863
    wanderingchana
    Participant

    young lady?

    #779864
    msk
    Member

    Ladies always like to feel young, by calling them girls they take it as a compliment 😉

    Boys always like to feel older than they really are.

    #779865
    haifagirl
    Participant

    Sometimes we don’t take it as a compliment.

    It’s rough to be called a girl when someone 10 years younger is called a married woman. It’s even stranger to be called a girl when someone 30 years younger is called a married woman.

    And it’s really difficult when someone 30 years younger is called an older single.

    And as you can tell from my handle, sometimes we learn to accept it.

    #779866
    TheGoq
    Participant

    I am single and in my forties i don’t think i should be considered a boy, sometimes you are made to feel like less than a man if u are not married, u don’t wear a tallis, i rarely get called for aliyahs but rather for lesser honors its ok for a “boy” to do galilah but in many shuls they would never give that to a married man because it is beneath them to do “boys” work.

    #779867
    shlishi
    Member
    #779868
    haifagirl
    Participant

    When friend who is my age became a bubby, I suddenly didn’t mind being a girl.

    And it’s my forte (French word meaning strength – literally “strong”) and not my forte (Italian word meaning loud – which, by the way, doesn’t have an acute accent).

    #779869
    ZeesKite
    Participant

    Boy, girl, man, woman, Bachur, Mr, Mrs., Miss, Ms.

    Too complicated.

    Zeeskite – for short!

    #779870

    I agree with yossi z, totally. as for a female, i really don’t know what i would call one. i guess married would be “young married woman/lady/girl” (to shorten, could be ymw/yml/ymg [not as in yaakov mordechai gerstner])

    i wonder what ppl say when they refer to me? probably girl. (which is a good description, being that i am a female, so its a good start)

    #779871
    minyan gal
    Member

    When my mother A’H’ was in her late 80’s, she would still say that she was having the “girls” over to play MahJongg. She played with the same “girls” for over 35 years.

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