Mon Mar 05, 2007, 10:52pm
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Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: only in my own mind, such as it is
Posts: 12,918
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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Many years ago, while officiating a Catholic school middle school girls game, after waiting for substitutes to enter the game, I handed the ball to the inbounder and said to her, "Here you go sweetheart". I guess it was a parent or teacher habit that I had picked up. I bet that I had said that dozens, or a hundred, times to young female players before that day. She replied to me "I'm not your sweetheart", and gave me a disgusted look. I've never said that again since. Never.
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I once had a female coach tell me that referring to her players as "ladies" was sexist. 
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