A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might ‘retaliate’ if they lost to the girls team.
A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might ‘retaliate’ if they lost to the girls team.
The NBA has been around since 1946, and the WNBA was introduced in 1996. They could have rebranded the NBA at that time I suppose, but the league was under no obligation to and why should they? If someone else spins up a business , I shouldn’t have to change my name to accommodate them. I’m going to assume in most cases where the sport league is gendered, it’s because one league existed prior to the other like in basketball.
Gender equality.
It’s not inequality to identify the different leagues. They could have been the, “Alternate National Basketball League” if they wanted, but instead opted to use a clearer descriptor. Also, just because it’s labeled, doesn’t make it anything lesser and it’s not insulting, it’s just a literal description of what it is. In
internalinternational competition, they are identified as men’s and women’s sports, but it would be nonsensical to rebrand a league just because a different league uses a more specific name.“It would be nonsensical to rebrand” was also what I heard about the Washington Redskins.
“Redskin” is a is a racial slur and is a negative descriptor. “Women” is not a slur nor insulting. These are two very different situations, unless you’re insinuating that calling females, “women” is some kind of insult akin to calling Native Americans “Redskins”.