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PaperclipPerfector  6d ago (text post)   2277 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for May 29, 2026

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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in a "the purpose of a system is what it does” sense, that it exists primarily for the whims of women) so the term is outdated.

Hmm. I think "manchild" refers to men who are immature, whereas to me "spinster" denotes a woman who failed to land a man. I think the closest equivalent in modern slang is "femcel".

Different connotation. A femcel is involuntarily celibate woman, but a manchild is a man who has failed to mature. A man child is not necessarily an incel. Ineed it's most often women in a relationship with a man who try to neg him into taking more of a responsibility in the relationship by calling him a manchild.

I agree, that's why I was saying I don't think "spinster" is the female equivalent to "manchild".

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