"Girl" ? Seriously?

So The girl with the dragon tattoo, The girl with the pearl ear ring, Girls just wanna have fu-un, This girl is on fire, etc. are all about children?!

It's the title of the book anyway, should they have changed it to The alcoholic, divorced, unemployed, psychotic woman on the train?

I agree but blame it on the girl who wrote the book.

who cares? and the answer is no one. no one cares about this because it's one of those common things that happens so much that the English language rules in this case don't matter. plus girls always like to roll back the clock and be seen as younger than they are. and girls love to be thought of as young and attractive which is what girls are.

guys don't care about looking young because their looking young isn't as important as women looking young because women don't care about looks as much as men do and because men can look good at an older age, 40-55 while women can't. they don't like to be called boy because it sounds bad and immature. with women it doesn't sound bad or immature unless the woman is 60 years old or older. it's just like how girls in their 20s and 30s and 40s don't like to be called ma'am because then they feel old.

The title derives from thoughts the character has about how people would see her for getting involved in this mystery she should really have no involvement in. They'd cast her aside as 'the girl on the train.' It's patronizing because she feels she'd be patronized. She's an alcoholic with no sense of responsibility. In her own way, she actually is 'a girl' the same way you'd refer to an irresponsible, immature man as 'a little boy.'




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Actually I read an article about this the other day, how some women hate the fact that Supergirl is Supergirl rather than Superwoman. I'm assuming most women would rather have the woman tag rather than the girl tag, same as most men with man as opposed to boy. Call a man a boy and he suddenly feels very put down.


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Good point. I hadn't thought of that.

OTOH, I am wondering if it is a reference to an Alfred Hitchcock story or a book? "Girl on the train" rings a bell.

Good point. I hadn't thought of that.

OTOH, I am wondering if it is a reference to an Alfred Hitchcock story or a book? "Girl on the train" rings a bell.

Not everything has to be tit for tat. Yes, in the English language, girl is to boy as woman is to man. But would you criticize someone for saying how ya doin'? Instead of how are you doing? Things become what is acceptable. I am 37 and I don't ever call myself a woman, ever. Woman sounds so old and frumpy and stick in the mud.

Almost everyone I know re Evers to themselves as a girl. Sure you can be offended, but not everyone is. But I don't ever say man, I'd never say "I met a man". I'd say I met this guy. The use of the term girl CAN be a compliment, because I would feel really weird if someone called me woman.