• Abundance114@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Inventing a term “Underaged Woman”

    I agree; but don’t we call girls aged like 13-18 “young women”?

    Ive never heard that females only become woman at age 18. (Not defending anything, but that point seems to be the weakest.)

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      5 hours ago

      You can call them that if you’re painting a positive picture of the future, like encouraging them because soon enough they’ll be voting. That’s a reasonable time to do so.

      If you do so here, when the whole point is there were massive horrible crimes on kids committed, you’re covering up the badness.

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        7 hours ago

        That would be young adult; we do generally accept that children become adults at 18, we do not have an agreed upon age that girls become women.

        Not defending any SA stuff, please don’t misinterprete what I’m saying here. I’m just saying “young women” isn’t “intentionally” minimalizing anything.