SLANG TERMS FOR A SINGLE WOMAN

SLANG TERMS FOR A SINGLE WOMAN

We have several discriminatory slang terms in Japanese for a woman who doesn’t get married until her late twenties. In Japanese, the number of career woman is increasing and the marriageable age is getting older, however, many women still try to get married before they are twenty-five years old. Otherwise, they are often hurt by embarrassing labels. Firsts, an older unmarried woman many are called an “old miss” the most widespread slang word. Every Japanese person knows that noun. “Miss” is a title used before the name of an unmarried woman in English, but in Japan it means a young unmarried woman, so a single woman who is not young is called an “old miss”. Another discriminatory word who is urenokori. The original meaning is “an unsold thing” and it means a woman who has been left on the shelf. Finally, the term “Christmas cakes” has the same meaning. Like the leftover Christmas cakes that grow old and stale after the Christmas season has passed, the older single woman is labeled in this derogatory manner. In Japan, getting married is more important for a woman than having a job and being independent, so many discriminatory word for an unmarried woman exist.