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Why are 20-something men never called boys but 20-something (and much older) women are called girls?
I call any unmarried male a boy (or more properly a bochur)
😀 Zuberman! 😀
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?
young lady?
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.
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.
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.
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).
Boy, girl, man, woman, Bachur, Mr, Mrs., Miss, Ms.
Too complicated.
Zeeskite – for short!
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)
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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