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My fiancée just asked me what's the distaff counterpart to the term "manchild".
I told her that there isn't one, and that this lexical gap Says A Lot About Our Society.
Joking aside, any proposed neologisms to fill this gap? "Womanchild" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
"Spinster". However current western society expects, for better or for worse, almost nothing from women (one could argue, in a "the purpose of a system is what it does” sense, that it exists primarily for the whims of women) so the term is outdated.
It’s just the classic free rider problem in action. Too many of the current generation (and a substantially large percentage of my own quite sadly) want the benefits of civilization but refuse to cooperate with the group to make it possible. All one has to do is look at divorce rates alone to see that too many of them can’t be depended on to act loyally to their husbands (I’ve seen it repeatedly); all of whom are second rate when compared to their flights of fancy or for them to willingly accept the weight of vows they make on their day of marriage. It’s why so many cultures developed such intense suppressive measures on their behavior, because fleeting, short-term self-interest was always omnipresent and always rotting away the institutions needed to uphold functioning society.
If women fail to cooperate then men fail to participate and next thing you know we’re all thrown out of Eden.
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