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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Depends on the context. Calling your male friend your boy isn’t really unacceptable at all. It’s a term of endearment is most cases. Calling a male adult you don’t know a boy typically means your demeaning them as an adult. Other times, it’s not. When you address the waiter at a french restaurant, you call the garçon, which literally is “boy”