Why is it often acceptable to refer to a woman as a “girl” but calling a man a “boy” is often unacceptable?

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Why is it often acceptable to refer to a woman as a “girl” but calling a man a “boy” is often unacceptable?

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As a man, I always interpreted it as we have a middle ground casual terminology of “guys” and “girls,” but for whatever reasons (maybe chauvinism) we didn’t develop a distinctive acceptable term for women. Like “gal” is sometimes used but not that much.

ideally we would say “gals” or use “guys” for both genders and maybe the usage of “girls” would go down