I was watching pro golf coverage on the news and it seems so odd that men and women compete separately - same goes with pro bowling. Just seems weird to me that a game of skill is gendered when you can’t even raise an argument that someone might have an advantage because of what’s between their legs.

    • CylustheVirus@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      And the German language! Mark Twain has a whole essay about it.

      “Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be learned separately and by heart. There is no other way. To do this one has to have a memory like a memorandum-book. In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. See how it looks in print – I translate this from a conversation in one of the best of the German Sunday-school books:

      Gretchen: “Wilhelm, where is the turnip?”

      Wilhelm: “She has gone to the kitchen.”

      Gretchen: “Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden?”

      Wilhelm. "It has gone to the opera.”