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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Addressing someone you dont know with a childish term is noted to just be plain disrespectful as its seen as being patronizing with them at best and will put you in some sort of list at worse.

and this is besides the undertones of calling a man ” boy” has in some parts of the world(ie: the US, if you call a Black man that you do not know “boy”, you deserve whatever is coming to you.).