1. When announcing, refer to the actual athlete and the athlete’s own exploits, and not some man that the athlete knows or is related to. Even if the athlete is . . . a woman.
Don’t Do This:
Wife of a Bears’ lineman wins a bronze medal today in Rio Olympics https://t.co/kwZoGY0xAX pic.twitter.com/VZrjOvr80h
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) August 7, 2016
Instead, Do It This Way:
Hey @chicagotribune, I fixed your tweet. (p.s. Maybe edit the article to focus on her achievements?) #Olympics pic.twitter.com/edtoExBua4
— Laura Keeney (@LauraKeeney) August 8, 2016
2. Don’t attribute a female athletes’s success to her “doing it like a man.”
Jeez. I thought we settled this with the whole #LikeAGirl hashtag. I mean, did Mo’ne Davis teach you people nothing?!
Instead of This, Do This:
“Katie Ledecky swims like a man.”
No, she swims like Katie Ledecky, who is a woman, ergo: she swims like a woman. Fast.#RioOlympics2016
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Simple. See?
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