Daily Chat Thread, Partie XV: Suffering Sappho

Daily Chat Thread, Partie XV: Suffering Sappho

So for a while, I noticed a tendency amongst Sapiens—including women!—to refer to female people as ‘girls.’ Not exclusively adolescents or children—mature women. It’s not just a gringo mistake either, because in our languages we say chicas, filles, ragazze (or, sometimes, bambine), and garotas. I can kind of understand blokes doing this since a lot of them fetishize youth, but women too? Why? I find it extremely unattractive, same with calling somebody ‘babe’ or ‘baby.’ (And on that note, how frequently do you hear somebody call others ‘babies’ unless it’s an insult?)

Quote of the day:

My heart’s at your command, dear.’