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‘Thornback’ keeps trending – here’s why this old-fashioned term is derogatory to young, single women

By Jacqui Turner, Associate Professor in Modern History, University of Reading

A thornback was seen as an unattractive and unloveable woman who had yet to find a man to save her from her predicament. We don’t need to bring the term back

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