Gender-neutrality

[Gary Brendemuehl]

Originally posted by rainmaker
Gender-neutral vocabulary for general use:

Folks
People (the youth pastor of our church uses this a lot)
Ladies and Gentlemen (for formal use)
Fellow Refs
Anyone else... (near the beginning of a question)
Friends (used by Quakers, especially)
Unenlightened Cretins

juulie

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