Calling women ‘girls’ is “outdated and insensitive”, according to actress Mayim Bialik.
The Big Bang Theory star has spelt out why she finds the term so offensive on her YouTube channel, which has more than 150,000 subscribers.
She said: “I was recently in a bar with two guy friends who are about 40 and one of them said to the other ‘oh my god dude, look at that girl sitting at the bar… she’s beautiful’.
“I started to look around wondering why they would let a child into the bar. Then I realised that when he said girl, he meant woman, but since she’s of that super narrow age range between five-years-old and 55-years-old we just don’t know what to call her so we call her a girl.”
