chuckiem wrote:bumphystars wrote:Huh, so by your logic, Ladies can apply to a 14 year old girl but Women can't?
Congrats to the ISU and anyone else who thinks that makes sense, but I do not. And I'm proud of Canada for taking a more modern approach, using a term that isn't loaded by outdated associations of what a female should be and how they should behave. The rest of the world should do the same.
Also, there ARE mens skaters who technically not adults as well. What should they be called?
As for cheering for all skaters, I totally agree that it makes the sport more enjoyable. We should all cheer for good skating!
I am SO tired of political correctness being applied willy-nilly to everything.
In figure skating, the terms LADIES, MEN, PAIRS, ICE DANCE are labels that signify separate and distinct disciplines, period. They are not meant to have any meaning other than that. Apparently in Canada offense is taken at the label "Ladies", so that has been changed in Canada. However, there has apparently been no global offense taken, so the ISU hasn't changed its label, and even the political-offense-oversensitive US hasn't objected to it either, so no change here.
We will agree to disagree here. Your own logic—that it's ladies because there are females younger than 18—is faulty, as I pointed out. And I'm CERTAIN that there is global offence taken to the term, but the US (and the ISU, hardly a bastion of progressive values) has simply not caught up. In time, they will. Until then, I'll continue to point it out on random internet chat boards.
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As for Finland, happy to see them jump back into the Grand Prix, and hope that their participation will fuel the growth of the sport there.