• uncouple9831@lemmy.zip
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      Why? Women can hold shovels pretty good afaik.

      Unless you mean making that the entire pitch, that you’re remaking a 20 year old book but…get this…they will be at a camp for girls rather than a camp for boys. Yeah that’s pretty weird. But we’ll never know if there was anything else interesting they were gonna do.

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          One would think that the brain would choose one form or another instead of mixing and matching when words have pairs

          Males and females

          Men and women

          Gentlemen and ladies

          Boys and girls

          But here they used males and women

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        Tbh I have a habit of doing it myself, because one has been decided offensive while the other has not. The other option in this case isn’t “men” either, rather it’d be “boys,” Camp Green Lake being a juvenile detention facility, and “boys” inverse “girls” can often be interpreted objectionably as well. (Not to mention the whole “holes” correlation, uhh, might not want to associate that with juveniles…)

        Though also I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen “males” called out like the inverse word.

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          and “boys” inverse “girls” can often be interpreted objectionably as well.

          Huh? Anything like “men and girls” is weird, but “boys and girls” is completely normal

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            I’m just going to drop this right here: sign announcing visiting it l hours for girls and men at a small jail I took it while visiting my brother in jail. Kentucky.