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[–] 5 points 3 weeks ago*

It took me a while to get to terms with man/woman, mainly because it feels like I'm a grown-up, and then I realised, fuck, I'll hit 30 soon...

Boy/girl works in informal contexts ("what's up, old boy"), but I would not like getting called a boy in a condescending way myself. So I decided to go with the more standard words for adult male/female humans, for no reason other than that they are neutral. In my native language, there is no direct equivalent of the nouns male/female, and the one we have sounds like straight out of a David Attenborough narration.

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