To clarify, the pictured poster Caroline Kwan is an ally, not a TERF. The TERFs referred to in the title are the ones ‘protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is’

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      Again, that is the name of the men’s league. That is not my fault, it’s theirs. It’s not anti-feminism to use the proper names of things even if those names are sexist.

      • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yes, it is. That’s why we changed verbiage like fireman to firefighter. Because it’s sexist. And it was sexist BEFORE people were asked to change the verbiage. That’s how systemic sexism works - it’s all sexist and you must be the radical change demanding progress. That you want to be a status quo limp dick is on you.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 months ago

          Again- that is the name of the league. That is not my fault.

          It’s also not my fault that the women’s league of the PGA is the LPGA and the men’s league is the PGA.

          And by your logic, every single person, male or female, who calls the men’s league of the NBA “the NBA” is a sexist.

          Incidentally, this includes Brittney Griner.

          We earn about 250 times less than NBA players and have a hard cap on our salaries. In the WNBA that year I made around $220,000. Overseas, I earned a million plus. That pay gap is why I was in Russia in the first place.

          ― Brittney Griner, Coming Home

          Wow, Brittney Griner really hates women, doesn’t she?

          • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Sure, that is a sexist use of the term even when women use it. This is Feminism 101. Eg “Just Pearly Things” espouses anti-feminist rhetoric despite being a woman herself.

            Again, the greater criticism is systemic sexism in sports including the Olympics and NBA. If you are opposed to this (obviously you aren’t), then you would emphasize gender equity in terminology regarding the NBA.

            Whether others do it too, fails to disprove my criticism because that IS my point - pervasive sexism in sports. Including with you as an individual.

            Your ego isn’t relevant here. Like who cares about if yet another random person on a forum is a boring misogynist who cant understand even basic Feminist theory? That’s like all of you. That’s expected. My point is to be someone who disrupts that. That you are part of the status quo is fine and expected. Keep holding onto calling it the NBA and pretending you care about women.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              3·
              3 months ago

              You will certainly cause a lot of “disruption” by berating a stranger for calling the NBA the NBA in a random thread on Lemmy. The revolution has begun and you’ve already won!