I like your blog a lot. It's really aesthetically pleasing. I just think it's sort of weird on principle that you label all the females you post as "girl" when most of them are adults, as in "women," and label all the males you post as "man", not "boy." Even if you don't mean it that way (and I don't think you do) it seems sort of patronizing...
Ah, interesting observation. Most of the times I make the reference to the "girl" as an affectionate term for anything and everything female related. Clothing articles, looks, actions that I find pleasing to my sight. I've actually thought of this myself before (if you look hard enough within that tag, you'll find who I'm referring to as a 'woman', but that's a conversation for another time).
Since I'm a male I know exactly what it's like to be and to relate to 'male' things: hence the reason I use terms like 'archetype' and 'menswear'. I don't, however, believe - recall, really - I have used to the word 'man'. In happenstance, when I do refer to people of the male gender I do refer to them as 'boy'. Which is the reason why I find this an interesting observation. As a crude example, when I'm in conversation with a friend and I ask about what's going on in the 'boy' department, I do make such reference. 'Boy' because it's in general terms. So it is the same when I'm referring to a 'girl'. Because it is a generalization, in my mind at least, since I don't know what it feels like to be a person of the 'female' gender. Generalization because I can only imagine or hypothesize about who is someone of the female gender.
This brings to mind things I think about on a regular basis like, what's the difference between a man and a boy; and the obvious reflection of this paradigm as it relates to the female gender. What is a woman? Rather than 'who' is a woman. Perhaps associating the 'what' with the 'who' might be part of the patronization paradigm which dictates what someone must do/look-like/say in order to be perceived as either. Which is what I use as a basis to refer to different things/people. So... I think I use the term 'girl' as a way to minimize the connotations that come with labeling a person either a 'man' or a 'woman' because in reality: who decides who is which? A bit of a nihilistic approach to gender definition, I do recon. This ultimately leads to thinking about what 'is' patronizing versus what 'we consider' to be patronizing. Forcing us to evaluate our positions on what is and what we perceive. In this fashion, 'perception is reality', we mustn't make the mistake of thinking the reverse of such popular phrase to hold true as the phrase itself does.
As it relates to me, a man is not only one who was born with a phallus member. Which is the reason why I do not take such word, 'man', lightly. In a similar way I try, as much as my conciousness permits, to not make a similar reference to someone of a gender I have no idea what it's like to be or relate to.
Edit: I'm sure I have made atrocious grammar mistakes. Do consider that the English language is not my first.
