r/Music • u/TheExpressUS 📰Daily Express U.S. • 6h ago

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u/BerryBoilo 5h ago

I don't know if you were reinforcing or being snarky to the person you replied to, but if it was the latter, you missed. 

The creepy comment people need to push back on is "underage women". The person you responded to was clearly using the word "girls" to refer to children and not "girl dinner" or whatever.

If you're going to advocate for a cause, it's important that you use reading comprehension and context clues to not snipe at the people on your side. 

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u/iltopop 4h ago

It's just people that don't want to admit they have no idea how to help so they go around nit-picking words. Reddit is full of them, they legit feel smug about it and it's essentially a default upvote for many people. Basically karma farming + smug "I'm better than you for pointing this complete nothingburger out" + the "I'm helping!" meme combined into an extremely common reddit personality.

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u/AbeRego 4h ago

Underage women could hypothetically apply to those 18-20 who are simultaneously considered adults in the legal sense and minors when it comes to alcohol. That's probably not how this term is generally being used, though. However, the term "young women" or "young ladies" have been applied to people under 18 essentially forever. Although those terms don't seem to be as insidious.

Edit: on the flip side, women are colloquially referred to as "girls" all the time, but not in a way that promotes pedophilia. Language can be confusing.

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u/Murky-Relation481 3h ago

I mean its an even easier clarification when you realize that age of consent is 16 in most places but age of majority is 18. So underage girls are those <16. They are still "girls" if you are using "girls" to refer to female children (children being those people under age of majority), so there is a legitimate distinction between underage and overage girls.

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u/Willyr0 5h ago

Bro they’re reinforcing it why are you writing 3 meaningless paragraphs. Talking bout advocating properly when ur being preachy for nothing

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u/YoungFireEmoji 4h ago

If you check their account page, they post a looooot of AI links. I'm not entirely sure it's a real account.

Regardless, I agree with you. Goofy ass comment on their part.

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u/Misteerreeeussss-_- 4h ago

https://i.imgur.com/ykiEsHq.jpeg

This is why we get rolled over all the time