Do you still consider yourself a girl?

camedowncrushing · July 2010

Or do you think of yourself as a woman? This may seem silly but I keep thinking about how I always think of myself as a girl....but with my 30th birthday looming I am wondering if I am suffering from delusions.

christy781 · July 2010

This is hilarious. I had this same conversation with a friend a few weeks ago. We plan "girls" nights in all the time and someone suggested using "women's" night in and it made me feel really old. I'm 32 and still consider myself both a girl and a woman. I'm a girl when I want to be goofy, stupid, and act like I'm 21. I'm a woman when I'm at work or need to be more mature!

MrsMcC091909 · July 2010

I think it can be used interchangeably - we still have girls' nights, and I have out with the girls, but I also tend to consider myself a grown woman.

smj01 · July 2010

I'm going to be 36. I still feel like I'm 16 and I have all the time in the world (which could be part my problem lol!). I mostly still feel like a girl, but at times, when needed, I feel like a grown woman. I think that's the best way to keep yourself feeling young.

MrsMcC - I love your Team Purple siggy. I thought I was the only one that doesn't like pink LOL!!

smal18 · July 2010

I guess I actually do think of myself as a girl instead of a woman, but I also feel like a grown-up, if that makes any sense. Like it doesn't seem natural for me to be called a woman, but I know I'm an adult. "Woman" put the image of a 55+ lady in my head.

MrsMcC091909 · July 2010

smj01:

MrsMcC - I love your Team Purple siggy. I thought I was the only one that doesn't like pink LOL!!

Wink

Buckeye608 · July 2010

Both, I guess? I'm not uncomfortable with either.

I occasionally reference myself as both, but when talking about others i.e. "I work with this one girl/woman" I almost always say woman, if that makes sense? I think if someone at work were to call me a "girl" it might feel condescending, but I talk about going out to eat or to the movies with my "girlfriends".

snowyowl · July 2010

I tend to use woman to describe someone I don't know. As in, "that nice woman who works at the store." Otherwise, for people I know I'll probably use girl (i.e. my friend Cassie is a really cool girl) or lady (your mother is such a nice lady.) I've noticed that "ladies" is popular on the Nest as well. So the upshot is, it would feel awkwardly detached to say, "I'm a woman."

SaveTheWorld2014 · July 2010

I'm relatively young, 23, so I have a hard time mentally referring to myself as a woman.

I'm not in a professional setting yet, still in school, so I don't have a real need to assert myself, or coworkers, as 'women.' Therefore, I usually refer to other people (friends, relatives, etc) as "girl."

However, I also attend a 'women's college' so the fact that I do engage in using 'girl' almost exclusively does bother me on an intellectual level.

I confuse myself. :-(

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