During the 'partner' discourse I kept seeing cishet women say they can't use 'boyfriend' because it feels juvenile/adolescent but I don't see lesbians say this about 'girlfriend' and I'm wondering why.
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Also, the word "girlfriend" was originally coined to mean platonic relationships among women, a "friend since girlhood", and this was seen as something that men didn't need their own word for
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"Girlfriend" to mean a heterosexual romantic partner was basically men appropriating the term, as was creating the term "boyfriend" by analogy
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People are too sensitive nowadays.
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