Kate, I heard that comment too, and was unsettled that my fave Dave Letterman used the phrase.
For what it is worth, someone used that phrase on the White Sox message boards once, just once. Someone (modesty forbids me stating who) called the poster on that as sexist language, was scoffed at, and then a major number of women and men responded in a great and massive support of that phrase being old, tired, incorrect, and sexist. And we have never seen it again! The women who responded tened to be women who entered sports in the post Title IX era. The men who reponded in support tended to be fathers of daughters now or recently in sports, again, post Title IX era. Vince > --- Kate Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on a similar but less crude note...is the kind of thing that i guess > > coaches used to say to their teams such as "throws like a girl" or > "runs like a girl". i thought this kind of talk was pretty outmoded > (publically at > > least) until i heard david letterman say something along those lines > > recently...& it really bugged me..
