Annagain
Well-Known Member
Anyone else absolutely hate this phrase?
I was on Grannywatch this weekend so stuck in the house more than usual and watched a bit of the Nations Cup at Hickstead. The commentators were saying it all the time and it was driving me mad! Some of them are in the world's top 10, they were all representing their countries so surely they're just 'leading riders'? Why do they need their own category? It was as if they were suggesting they couldn't possibly be expected to be as good as the men. And the use of 'lady' rather then women or female seems extra patronising to me.
Hickstead used it themselves on their website too when 'leading lady riders' Ellen Whittaker and someone else chose the best dressed lady on Ladies' Day. Don't even get me started on that. The idea that women get to judge other women on what their clothes are like is awful. I know it happens geneally in life but to encourage it and offer prizes for it is so outdated, I can't believe they still do it.
I'm not normally a raving feminist but this really bugged me.
I was on Grannywatch this weekend so stuck in the house more than usual and watched a bit of the Nations Cup at Hickstead. The commentators were saying it all the time and it was driving me mad! Some of them are in the world's top 10, they were all representing their countries so surely they're just 'leading riders'? Why do they need their own category? It was as if they were suggesting they couldn't possibly be expected to be as good as the men. And the use of 'lady' rather then women or female seems extra patronising to me.
Hickstead used it themselves on their website too when 'leading lady riders' Ellen Whittaker and someone else chose the best dressed lady on Ladies' Day. Don't even get me started on that. The idea that women get to judge other women on what their clothes are like is awful. I know it happens geneally in life but to encourage it and offer prizes for it is so outdated, I can't believe they still do it.
I'm not normally a raving feminist but this really bugged me.