The takeaway: Girls who were there share their thoughts, Nov. 29

I was mortified to read a headline regarding the speech given by Michelle Obama that quoted the thoughts of three young women, aged 19, 21, and 24, respectively.

The headline referred to these three young women as “girls.”

I would posit that these women are taxpaying members of our society who have the right to vote, to be criminally charged as adults and to risk their lives while serving in our military.

I will also note that the article was written by a woman, but the headline seems to be from the old boys’ network.

In this climate, the tremendous lack of respect shown to these three women is worthy of a public apology, and the Toronto Star should be deeply ashamed of the bias shown.

After all, Mitch Marner and Auston Mathews are treated as respected men in your paper, but none of them are older than the 24-year-old “girl” quoted in this story.

Greg Stock, Toronto