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Yup.
Indeed.
Thanks. I won't leave, but I'm not going to post like I used to either. Probably good for basketball-life balance anyway.
"Shoots like a girl" is well down the scale of casual misogyny, and could be considered descriptive if you look at it in the right context. I don't really have a major problem with it as Marion's release is similar to that of many female basketballers. However, you could have come up with something more creative - "shoots like a girl" is a bit obvious.
What I was really reacting to was not your post but the frequent, casual and often abusive use of terms like " got" and " " and " / " around ST these days. The fact that I find casual use of these terms offensive and degrading to a large percentage of the human population is not "political correctness", it is basic human respect and decency. I object to stereotyping people on the basis of their race, sex or sexuality, and a casual use of these terms to denigrate people who are of other races, or women, or sexual, is base and unnecessary. Note that I am NOT accusing you of this for your "shoots like a girl" post, although if you were not being descriptive and were instead using that phrase as a denigration of women, I do object to it. Women are not less then men, and it's about time men all around the world realised this.
Also this has nothing to do with creating "a dull and milquetoast world", because the terms described above and frequently used on ST are the easiest course when feeling frustrated or being abusive - they are not creative or insightful, nor are they humourous. I would far prefer the abuse and frustration to be creative and interesting than to have to continually read the phobic, misogynistic and racist inner monologues of many of the current crop of ST denizens.
