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It's just a rhetorical device. The phrase "play like a girl" has already been established and associated with various advocacy groups trying to increase sports
by knodi123 9y ago
It's just a rhetorical device. The phrase "play like a girl" has already been established and associated with various advocacy groups trying to increase sports opportunities for girl who were previously discouraged from participating in the traditionally male activity.
But I think that the original phrase, "(do it) like a man" was meant to contrast with "like a boy", as in "be a mature and skilled adult, not an awkward and timid adolescent". If I'm right about that, then "code like a girl" is humorously ignorant, since "woman" would fit better. Unless this is a children's outreach thing? I dunno about that part.
- toasterlovin 9y agoI believe these are all playing off of the phrases "run like a girl" and "throw like a girl" (not sure which derives from which).
- jpindar 9y agoI disagree that it has anything to do with man vs. boy. The phrase "play like a girl" is a reaction to "throw like a girl" and "fight like a girl", which meant to do those things in a less than effective way. Now that phrase is being redefined as a statement that girls can do things just fine and doing something like a girl does not mean doing it badly.