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Our women’s softball team is the Tigers.
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Our women’s softball team is the Tigers.


Feb 21, 2021, 9:29 PM

And our women’s volleyball team is the Tigers.

But our women’s basketball team has always been the Lady Tigers.

Thinking through this logically, Lady Tigers is only used when there is also a men’s sport on campus. Since basketball is a men’s and women’s sport, the women are Lady Tigers. And since volleyball and softball don’t have a men’s team, they are the Tigers (not Lady Tigers).

BUT, our women’s soccer team is the Tigers, despite there being a men’s soccer team.

And now it seems that our women’s basketball team is now just the Tigers, and not the Lady Tigers.

Can someone please explain all of this to me? Does it have something to do with cis gender roles, women’s rights, and not wanting to force toxic masculinity on the women’s teams? I’m guessing that’s why Lady Tigers has fallen out of favor recently and all women’s sports are referred to as Tigers.

I don’t have a problem with it, just wondering because “I has the confuse.”

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You’re overthinking this . . .


Feb 21, 2021, 9:34 PM

too much pondering . . . Call them all Ladies and be done with it.

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Well done.***


Feb 21, 2021, 9:43 PM



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Dang it skeeta.....doing that to me this early and on a


Feb 22, 2021, 7:06 AM [ in reply to You’re overthinking this . . . ]

Monday morning!!!!!!

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Re: Dang it skeeta.....doing that to me this early and on a


Feb 22, 2021, 9:02 AM

Sounds to me like somejuan had a dr... ummm.... errrrr.... oops, wait, scratch that. For a minute there I thought I was in the Lounge....

PS: And speaking for myself, Skeeta has ALWAYS got the green light to keep yours truly Pondering.

GM MyFO!

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Re: Dang it skeeta.....doing that to me this early and on a


Feb 22, 2021, 9:22 AM

good morning UB!!!! Hope you all are doing well.

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Re: Our women’s softball team is the Tigers.


Feb 21, 2021, 9:39 PM

It’s an enigma wrapped in a riddle stuffed into a burrito.

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Sounds about right.


Feb 21, 2021, 9:44 PM

These are the kinds of things I think about.

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Re: Sounds about right.


Feb 21, 2021, 9:48 PM

Good job Tiger women.

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Sounds like a very sexist reply . . . .***


Feb 22, 2021, 12:02 PM [ in reply to Re: Our women’s softball team is the Tigers. ]



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Brad Brownell: Only Larry freaking Shyatt has a WORSE overall winning percentage among Clemson basketball coaches since 1975. Let that sink in. It's Larry Shyatt & then Brad Brownell.


Re: Our women’s softball team is the Tigers.


Feb 22, 2021, 3:19 AM

Just imagine the confused that the Fighting Gamecocks must have...what with them being a Ladies BB school...

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Feb 22, 2021, 8:07 AM

I think the real confuse for the coots is that their teams name is the Lady #####. Kinda strange.

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Feb 22, 2021, 9:29 AM

Hearing Lady ##### always make me giggle.

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Feb 22, 2021, 6:50 AM

In a few years, it won’t matter. All 107 sexes will be participating on the same teams.

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Re: Our women’s softball team is the Tigers.


Feb 22, 2021, 12:15 PM

Science!

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WAY too much noodling time on your hands, eh!


Feb 22, 2021, 7:33 AM

:)

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Years ago...


Feb 22, 2021, 8:02 AM

Lander College was known as the Senators (now the Bearcats).

However, the women's teams were called the Lady Reps (Representatives).

No idea why.




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Pretty sad that politics has gotten so repulsive


Feb 22, 2021, 8:29 AM

that they had to change their names to avoid offending anyone.

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I had a couple of friends who played soccer at Lander...


Feb 22, 2021, 8:36 AM

and I remember them mentioning that back in the mid 80's there was a campaign to change the mascot to the Lions but the proposal was voted down by the student body.

I think the whole Bearcats thing started around 2005. Again...no idea why.




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Re: Pretty sad that politics has gotten so repulsive


Feb 22, 2021, 8:45 AM [ in reply to Pretty sad that politics has gotten so repulsive ]

You should see what Disney has done to avoid Muppets reruns to be politically correct !!!

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Re: Years ago...


Feb 22, 2021, 11:13 AM [ in reply to Years ago... ]

Maybe they should change the women's teams nickname to the VP's.

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Well...since the libs don't recognize gender...


Feb 22, 2021, 11:23 AM

Kamala can't claim to be the first female VP.

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Re: Our women’s softball team is the Tigers.


Feb 22, 2021, 8:38 AM

My first thought is since the two basketball teams share the same court. Maybe that is why they have distinguishing names. Also, there is no men’s volleyball team or men’s softball team. So when discussing the basketball team there needed to be a distinguished name difference to know which team was being referred too

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Why not the Clemson Tigresses


Feb 22, 2021, 8:52 AM

It just rolls off the tongue

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Re: Our women’s softball team is the Tigers.


Feb 22, 2021, 9:10 AM

"are"

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How about Tigresses?***


Feb 22, 2021, 12:45 PM



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I have seen a lot of people push to eliminate “Lady” before a women’s team


Feb 22, 2021, 1:34 PM

Im not sure the exact reason but it’s what I’ve seen

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That seems to be the case with our women's basketball team.


Feb 23, 2021, 11:06 AM

I just realized that there is no mention of the Lady Tigers on the Clemson women's basketball website, just Tigers.

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It was mainly a controversy at Tennessee


Feb 23, 2021, 11:11 AM

https://thesoutherneronline.com/75244/comment/board-eds/lady-labels-on-sports-teams-are-sexist-must-be-removed/


Says that it indicates male teams are the default and that “lady” makes it seem like a mascot or something not as serious.

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