Why Schoolgirls Wouldn't Giggle at the AP's Softball Story

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The poster remarked: "This is amusing -- you guys trying to trivialize the problem of media sexism by studiously avoiding the reference to the women as CHILDREN. I suggest you ask yourself honestly why you feel driven to try to obscure and redirect this conversation. Why is a simple post requesting that women athletes be afforded the same dignity as men so personally threatening to you?"

My response:

Oh shut up! Major league baseball players are often described as men playing a child's game (which is true), some players having a "child-like" enthusiasm for the sport and how they related to baseball as kids is a constant thread of conversation on MLB broadcasts. Minor league prospects are often referred to as "kids."

As for the WNBA, what the writer said, like it or not, is true. Their game has in the past lacked the degree of physicality of its male counterpart, the NBA, and a shift is now obviously occurring as women athletes become bigger, stronger and more athletic (Candace Parker for one).

This article is just more hysterical cant by an uber sensitive practicioner of political correctness.

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