In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What I write is not for little girls.
I was not a girly girl. I was a tomboy.
I'm not a girl anymore.
I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.
We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.
No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.
I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.
Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.
I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.