A Brief History of Sexism in TV Coverage of the Olympics

[KitSileya]

5. Just to clarify,

This isn't acceptable in Northern Europe either. While English isn't the first language in Scandinavia, most Scandinavians speak English. We also have our own words that distinguish between girls and women (jenter/flickor vs kvinner/damer) and calling grown female athletes (or any grown women, for that matter) for girls will be seen as misogynistic.

Now dipsydoodle has indicated that he does not want to continue our discussion, so I won't address his points - other than to point out that if he says Europe but only think that the English-speaking part of Europe is relevant in this discussion, I would remind people that that is a tiny minority consisting of the UK, ireland, and Malta, and not even all the people in those countries have English as their first language. I think the French and the Germans (not to mention the rest of us Europeans) would be mighty offended if we hear those three countries referred to as all of Europe!