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Having a gender-neutral pronoun is really good (I've experimented with a few in English, but most people don't understand them or care when it is explained), bu
by dbaupp 15y ago
Having a gender-neutral pronoun is really good (I've experimented with a few in English, but most people don't understand them or care when it is explained), but some aspects are possibly going to far: I don't see any reference to the actual physiological differences between the genders.
This quote particularly got to me:
> The Swedish Bowling Association has announced plans to merge male and female bowling tournaments in order to make the sport gender-neutral
In any physical contest men are highly likely to be the victors: there is a reason why the female marathon record is 10 minutes behind the male one, and it's not lack of training and effort. Maybe this doesn't apply to bowling so much, I don't know, but at the risk of committing the slippery-slope fallacy, I hope sports don't just jump on the gender-neutral bandwagon because it's politically advantageous/correct.