As mentioned previously, with the Goolie Emergency, I have a day-by-day calendar which provides me with various golf trivia and helpful hints. Here is yesterday’s page:
You may find this mildly helpful. I find it mildly offensive.
It is July 7th. We are more than halfway through the year. The calendar has been just full of helpful advice. How to survive a bird attack. How to stop a fire you started when your cigar ash fell in dry rough. What to do if you run into a rabid animal on the course. How to treat a sprained ankle, and how to get a fellow player who has said sprained ankle back to the clubhouse if you were walking. How to start a stalled golf cart. Even what to do if you are on the course and a tornado is headed your way.
In all of these cases you and your fellow player/s are mentioned and in all of these cases the fellow players were referred to with ‘he’ and ‘his’.
Do you see the issue now?
If you are in a ‘situation’ on a golf course where, with a little helpful advice, you and your fellow players can get yourself out of a jam, the assumption is the players are all male.
But when it comes to cheating, all of a sudden your fellow player is referred to with ‘she’ and ‘her’.
To be fair, 80% ( maybe more ) of all golfers out there are male. And I certainly can’t have a Goolie Emergency. So I didn’t really mind that up until now the calendar has been very male centric. But why the sudden shift in genders when it comes to cheating? Cheaters come in both sexes, but statistically speaking there are far more male cheaters than female cheaters in the game of golf. So why not just continue with the overall male bias of the entries? Why is the cheater all of the sudden female? Hmmmm?
Somewhere there is a male who edited this calendar and let this go by without a second thought. He is lucky I don’t know who he is, or he might find himself having a little Goolie Emergency of his own.
I agree, that is totally rude!!!!
Posted by: Jill | July 09, 2009 at 08:29 PM