Calling women girls is the equivalent of calling men boys. Interestingly, we are so used to referring to adult women as girls that calling a female adult a woman feels wrong, because it may sound offensive while calling her a girl feels right. The terms 'boys' and 'girls' generally refer to children, so in calling a female adult a girl, one uses the influence of language to make them seem smaller. By calling a woman a child, one is imposing a child's characteristics, such as immaturity. This infantilization of people, especially women, propagates the socially accepted ideas of being weak, helpless, and irrational. It causes their ideas and abilities to be undervalued.
For example, in the subject video, the anchor keeps referring to Women Air force Service Pilots as girl-pilots to emphasize the surprise he and everyone else had that mere 'girls' would do as much as fly planes for the US army air force. It is the kind of shock one would exhibit seeing a child fly a plane because we do not expect their mind to have evolved to that point. The anchor makes another misogynistic implication by pointing out to a blonde whom he and the viewer at the time would have judged by 'other standards' (The Second World War, 2015), indirectly referring to their physique.
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Unlike the seemingly harmless culture of calling adult women girls, a woman's objectification is outright wrong and disrespectful. A woman's body, as curvy as it may be, is not for display. It is highly discourteous for a man, or anyone else for that matter, to judge a woman by the standards of her body or general looks.
Reference
The Second World War. (2015, December 1). Media's Misogynistic Portrayal of Women in
Wartime [Video]. YouTube. Retrieved from: https://youtu.be/CJ_jql5UgCs
