I understand and agree to a point...
by veets (2024-04-26 15:25:28)

In reply to: Don't Think It's as Cut and Dry as Last Name/First Name  posted by dillon77

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Basketball teams have small rosters, so you don't get as many players with the same first names as, say, the football team. I also get that we're fans and familiar with the players, so first names should be known and referring to players by their first names shouldn't be confusing.

But...

Look at the linked post from The Pit. Four last names of ND players listed. All are known to the people who frequent the board...but men tend to be called by last names. Women tend to be called by first names. I know many women who find it belittling. (Same with a co-worker who calls his women peers "girls").

Women posters on ND Nation have dropped out over the last several years due to the way men have referred to women (and I'm guilty, but doing better). I don't know all of the posters on McGraw's Bench, but it seems to be 100% men. Do we think that there are no ND Women Basketball fans who are, you know, women? Why are there no women posters?



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