Having a "girls" night out" Don't you dare invite Mayim Bialik
by Sara McGinnis posted in Parenting
Mayim Bialik has put out a call for everyone to stop referring to grown women as "girls."
In a video which begins with the actress admitting, "I'm going to be annoying right now," the mother of two boys says she's going "to talk about something that a lot of people don't want to talk about."
The 41-year-old star was apparently spurred into action after she heard a male say, "Oh my god, dude, look at that girl sitting at the bar. She's so beautiful." To Mayim's surprise, there wasn't a child in the room.
"When we use words to describe adult women that are typically used to describe children, it changes the way we view women, even unconsciously, so that we don't equate them with adult men," she continued. "In fact, it implies that they are inferior to men." "The terms we're using for women are outdated and insensitive and they assume a structure of power where men are on the top and women are on the bottom," she went on to say. "It's up to us to change this narrative. To those of you who call women 'girls,' I say this: I know your intentions are probably good, but I hope you can learn to see the unintended and negative impact your words can have."
Watch Mayim Bialik's full video on "girls" versus "women" here:
I honestly don't feel overly passionate about Mayim Bialik's argument one way or the other, but I do agree with the point that th...
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