Manly girls

[SteveF]

Originally posted by SPORTSOFFICIAL
First of all, High School players are boys and girls not men and women. Secondly, IMO, man to man refers to the species not the sex. Basketball is usually nat playied by dogs, apes, martians, ect; it is playied by humans, commonly called a generic "man".

FINALLY!

Someone with a little English knowledge. The reason we call them the mailman, the policeman, the fireman is not because you have to be male to hold those jobs but because in the English languare the male and nueter use of nouns is the same. So by calling a woman a man using it in it's nueter form which is used during basketball games given our language should not be offensive to anyone. However calling a man a woman is offensive.