Show RUTH MILLETT Says Its It's Just J About Time We Girls' Girls Grew Crew Up Come on girls Lets Let's get together and decide a problem that concerns just us Lets Let's decide just how long a girl is a girl and when she ought to start referring to herself and her girl friends as women The way it is now with nobody nobody nobody no no- body knowing j just st where the di dividing dividing dividing di- di viding line is women reach their sixtieth birthdays birth birth- rr i days still re referring referring re- re r ferring to their contemporaries as the girls Should a girl girla a ii u t become a woman woman wom worn an when she reaches 25 Or should the dividing dividing dividing di di- viding age be 30 Or should it be pushed up to 40 Its It's for us to decide But decide decide dedde de de- de- de cide we should B Because e c a U use S e we Ruth Kuth Millett sound kind of silly referring to ourselves as girls long after weve we've taken to dyeing the gray hairs and spending our money on facials facials fa fa- a- a And when we say gals gals Its It's even worse For gals is such old dated slang that it marks its user as in the neighborhood of 40 at least We haven't anything to lose by admitting at some stage of the game that were we're mature adults that that we are no longer girls but women And we have quite a bit to gain Dignity for one thing It doesn't sound very dignified when a plump matron matron matron ma ma- tron who pants as she climbs a short flight of stairs refers to herself and her friends as girls Its It's a little bit funny and a little bit pathetic It also re reminds reminds reminds re- re minds the listener of just what the girls dont don't want anyone to tobe tobe tobe be reminded of that of-that that they arent aren't girls any longer So lets let's decide a time when we should start calling ourselves women and then stick by it |