> Calling women "girls" while discussing something like the politics of harassment has the effect of subtly diminishing their credibility and personhood. Do yo

> Calling women "girls" while discussing something like the politics of harassment has the effect of subtly diminishing their credibility and personhood. Do you mean "adulthood" instead of "personhood", or are you using "personhood" as a term d'art unfamiliar to me? (I am assuming you consider a child or adolescent to be a person as much as an adult is a person, with as much personality.)