Posted on 07/02/2024 2:04:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We live in an age of nomenclature nonsense, where leftists think that the solution to so many problems is to just rename things. Take the “ball boys” and “ball girls” at tennis tournaments, for example. Those terms are passé because they’re gender-specific, which we all know just won’t do in our enlightened world.
The Australian Open and French Open have taken to calling their ball boys and ball girls “ball kids,” which is a stupid moniker. The U.S. Open refers to its ball boys and ball girls as the “ball crew,” which isn’t quite as bad.
Granted, they’re mostly teenagers, but these boys and girls undergo rigorous training to retrieve balls from the tennis courts and otherwise stay out of the way. The ball boys and ball girls at this year’s upcoming Wimbledon tournament are no exception.
“Wimbledon prides itself on having what it sees as the best in the business, with ball boys first introduced in 1920,” reports the Daily Mail. “They go the extra mile to ensure things run smoothly and do not have an easy job. In the past, they have been berated by players, hit in the head by loose strikes from the likes of Roger Federer, and fainted in the heat.”
The All England Club, which hosts Wimbledon, has also decided not to play the gender-neutral games and is sticking to ball boys and ball girls. Pardon the mixed sport jargon, but it’s par for the course at a tournament that prides itself on long-standing tradition.
“The slogan for this year’s Wimbledon is ‘Always like never before,’ a nod to the All England Club’s annual balancing act in modernising while maintaining some of the traditions it holds so proud,”
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This gets tiresome. So now you can’t call them ball boys or girls.
Next up, in baseball, the description of batboys will have to change. After all, we are compelled to he politically correct in all areas of life, whether it mskes sense or not
Wimbledon’s long tradition held firm against the call to banish the all-white clothing. This is a no-brainer.
Good for them.
I think they've ignored baseball because mostly Upper Class Whites and Hispanics from the DR and Venezuela play the sport. So it's not mainstream any longer.
WNBA still dodging the bullet, somehow, some way.
I watched the track/field trials in it it’s entirety.
Including the man winning the women’s 1500m and the idiot announcer calling him a they/them-I passed on that post race interview-
almost the entire rest of our team, thanked GOD and were proud Americans. It was very nice to see in today’s day and age.
Be on the lookout for the wacko protestors to invade and spread their madness. From the No Oil wackos to the LGBTQWERTY insane asylum inmates, they will appear. It would be great if Wimbledon had a closed door meeting with all the players, and gave them permission to knock down any clown by using a tennis ball, and let the Ball Girls and Ball Boys drag them off. The crowd would cheer and cheer.
We should all refuse to surrender to the Left’s artificial reality.
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