I always like to bring up how the term "girlfriend" originally meant unusually intimate lifelong relationships women had with each other - a friend you've had since you were a girl - and then men just stole it to mean het romancehttps://twitter.com/9BillionTigers/status/1313796555309162496 …
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The word "boyfriend" came into existence as a result of het couples stealing "girlfriend" and has always meant a man in a het romance, by contrast Men didn't think they needed a special word for their "boyhood friends" until recently
10:06 AM - 7 Oct 2020
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