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| 16 | 1073 | Secondly, the View more quotes about expression">expression 'girl', at least in the usage of men, has not only the aforementioned connotation but, even more powerfully, and independently of the age of the female, the commendatory suggestion of extreme sexual desirability. |
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| 16 | 1070 | The expression 'girl' in such contexts is rich and delicious. |
| 16 | 1071 | It has a lovely reductive or demeaning sense in which it discriminates between the slave and the free woman, and calls attention to the lowliness, the unimportance and the meaninglessness of the slave. |
| 16 | 1072 | Indeed, free mistresses will invariably refer to, and address, their serving slaves, and such, even those of their own age, as "girl". |
| 16 | 1073 | Secondly, the expression 'girl', at least in the usage of men, has not only the aforementioned connotation but, even more powerfully, and independently of the age of the female, the commendatory suggestion of extreme sexual desirability. |
| 16 | 1074 | It functions as a term of interest and praise. |
| 16 | 1075 | It is not a chronological classification; it is a signal that he regards her as lying within an ideal prey range for his aggressive dispositions. |
| 16 | 1076 | Of two women the same age, a man will think of one as a girl and the other as a woman. |