I’m not a girl. Please don’t me call that…
I am an adult—therefore, I am a woman. This is something that really annoys me, but in the past I’ve also been guilty of referring to women as girls. But I’ve made a conscious effort to stop, because language matters. In the video, Mayim Bialik explains why we all need to stop referring to adult females as girls. And she backs it with science (Yay for Science!). The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is the theory that language one uses influences the way…