Back when I was an irksome, irritable teenager, I used to take issue with the fact that my mother would talk about “the girls at work” when in fact most of them were approaching 50. To me, a 14-year-old with copies of FHM stashed under his bed and enough testosterone and sexual frustration to make … Continue reading Joshi or josei? Japanese netizens discuss the age at which a “girl” becomes a “woman”