To be sick to the back teeth of hearing sportswomen being referred to as "girls"?

[beansprout]

What are they? 8 years old with pigtails?

And "ladies" isn't much better either.

What's wrong with "women" ffs?

the boys in blue

if you told Freddy Flintoff he was a man he'd laugh!!

I'm just really touchy about it, what with the patting of the head that accompanies it
Pretty good call on the value judgement on footballers.

ah now, the patting of the head would royally piss me off!!!!

Hey, baby that's whatta like

lol

and a wiggle in the walk

And a giggle in her talk...

now we're showing our age!!!!

but i'm still a girl!!!!

Lol, my parents used to jive to that song on a Saturday night, we made our own entertainment back in the day

lol and drinking R Whites lemonade!!! or did you have Tizer?!

Definitely R whites... r whites, i'm a trying to give it up but it's one of those nights...

ok you got me! cant remember all the words to that one and have no idea how to type the noise he used to make!

male athletes are often referred to as boys, not so much in individual sports but most certainly in team sports. i think the op is being over sensitive.