I will always enjoy being called a girl.
There are some who f ind the term girl, as referred to a woman, demeaning. When I think about it, however; I was never as free as I was when just a girl.
I don’t find the term insulting. It is inclusive of all the generations of femalehood. (I may have just made that word up, but you get my meaning.)
We go from playing with Barbies to side-eye ing boys to obsessing over men to caring for children and finally to enjoying our independence again.
That’s not to say an adult woman doesn’t have an independent spirit, but her existence, joys and sorrows are interwoven with the lives of those around her.
As is her time and energy.
Independent again means family and friends are less reliant on her (independent?) and she can, once again, explore life as herself, a girl.
A girl’s interests grow and change throughout life. But she is still a girl at heart. I am still a girl at heart.
So to say, “I’m going out with the girls” or “hanging with the girls” or by calling oneself a girl, a woman, in essence, is returning to her free state.
Her thoughts and feelings are her own. What she does with that is up to her, not anyone else.
As I appreciated each phase of my life, I truly enjoy this independent, free-spirited, girl phase, once again.
— Venus Bratsveen
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