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Originally posted by Gary Brendemuehl
When I first started coaching girls, I always asked what I should call man-to-man defense. The girls thought person-to-person, player-to-player, girl-to-girl didn't sound right and wanted me to stay with man-to-man. However, I will try these gender-neutral terms and I'll let you know if we switch our man-to-man defense to:
folk-to-folk
people-to-people
lady-to-lady
fellow-to-fellow
anyone else-to-anyone else
(this one sound familiar... Please just guard anyone!)
friend-to-friend
Unenlightened Cretin-to-Unenlightened Cretin
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These are cute, Gary!
Seriously, though, how about one-to-one?
Stripes -- I don't think it's a matter of looking to be offended, at least not for me. But it's hard not to be when I go to use the restroom in a highschool here and the two doors are labeled "Men" and "Girls". What in the world am I supposed to think?' All the males are adults, and all the females aren't? If I regard myself as a mature adult, and I do, where do I go to the bathroom? Is there another set of bathrooms somewhere in this school where the doors are labeled "Women" and "Boys"? 90% of men that I talk to about this, don't think it's any big deal, but 90% of women do. SO who's right?
And it is a refereeing issue when coaches don't respect me mrerely because of that one X chromosome which I have one more of than they do. Is this like penis envy, only in reverse?
It is a refereeing issue when women players prefer women refs, but can't get enough of them because the local associations are intimidating to women, or because women don't feel that they can handle the macho stuff.
I'm not a big feminist wymyn-only type of gal, and I understand that most men are not misogynists. So that's why I wrote up that little agreement at the top of the discussion -- I'll agree to be less touchy, if you'll be more sensitive. Get it?