Posts by Danielle
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Yeah, Graeme, I know *how* to form a sentence without using the preposition at the end. My point was that I didn't, because it's now technically correct to put the preposition there, but I wanted to note my discomfort. Because I am old-fashioned and a weirdo, etc.
(This edition of Pointlessly Overexplaining My Own Posts is brought to you by the letter Q and the number 9. And delicious cookies.)
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In cricket two years ago there were barely any girls at year one in Wellington.
That's depressing, seeing as it is the Best Sport Ever. (Note: you couldn't pay me a million dollars to personally play *any* sport, at school or now, so I probably have no right to an opinion on this.)
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Also, I don't even *like* soccer. :)
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Do you want the mens' competition, which has been going on since 1930 and has n-times the following, to rename itself? Earn it.
Yeah, I'll get right on that. After I sort out everything else. Also, what does that even *mean*? Earn what? Followers? Players? Sponsorship? Cute outfits? How do these measures of achievement work? Who decides? If they get to, say, 63% of the level of support of the men's competition, are we going to graciously allow them equal naming rights? Or what?
I don't see young women desperate to play knocking on the doors of a male dominated sport.
That's a much bigger question that I don't think anyone really has a definitive answer for.
ETA: I know it's technically correct nowadays, but man I hate ending a sentence with a preposition like that.
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To my mind, equality would make sense if there was any meaningful equivalence between the two versions of the sport.
I don't know, to me it seems weird to say 'well, when they're equivalent, that's when we'll name them equivalently!' Given that *absolutely nothing in any fight for equality works that way*. It's like you want the egg to come first, and I totally know that we're gonna need the chicken.
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changing the name of the mens' competition won't be almost comically tokenistic
Changing practically everything to gender-neutral language is 'comically tokenistic', according to quite a few people. I subscribe to the belief that 'words mean things', though.
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Ah, so the name is *officially* sexist. Well, that's all right then.
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Poms coming out of the woodwork to comment in their every-so-dreary and irritating working class accents
This from Tom Semmens, tireless champion of the working man? I feel so disillusioned. :)
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Hey Lucy, is there anything else you've said today that we can misread spectacularly and then moralistically wag our fingers at you about? I don't think we've quite covered all the bases yet.
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"big black nemesis" "parthenogenesis"
I haven't heard that song for perhaps 15 years, but wait... wait... don't tell me... is the next line 'everybody happy as the dead come home'? Something like that?
(Imagine what I could do with this brain if it wasn't filled with dubiously accurate song lyrics.)