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Post by ARENA on Jul 28, 2022 8:05:47 GMT
Glad to see the England football team doing so well.
Just one more game Lionesses.
Oh, I'm informed by the media it's sexist to call them that. We should call them Lions , like the men
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Post by marispiper on Jul 29, 2022 11:22:20 GMT
No it's not silly Arena - it's pathetic.
We should resist all the way!
The Halifax starting a campaign a few weeks that offered customers the option of being addressed by their preferred pronoun. People thought that was daft and said so. Their spokesman then said "If people don't like it, they can move their money elsewhere" and they did - in droves! A Gerald Ratner moment if ever there was one!
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Post by ARENA on Aug 2, 2022 8:30:12 GMT
If a male footballer takes his shirt off he gets a yellow card. If a female footballer takes her shirt off she is 'empowering women'.
Confused.arena
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Post by althea on Aug 2, 2022 13:55:19 GMT
Men and women are not the same and no amount of changes in language will make them so.
Vive la difference!
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Post by aubrey on Sept 28, 2022 19:00:06 GMT
Lionesses do all the work. Lions just sit about doing nowt.
Ruth Rendell (as Barbara Vine) has a character called The Lioness in one of her books; that always sounded a bit sexy to me, even though she hardly appears.
Mind you, so did the girl known as Panther (from Anthea) in a couple of Edith Nesbit's books, though you'd have to be about 10 for that to work.
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