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Posts: 3363 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Sam.Spoons Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 Mar 22 at 1:48pm
To me it's a word that carries an implied smile and no real malice, 'muppet' is another as is 'plonker'...  Smile
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Posts: 778 		Post Options Post Options   Quote tink Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 Mar 22 at 6:58pm
International Womens day, ironically tidying a few books and came across this 1973 book How Sailboats Win Races, William Smith. Thankfully we have progressed


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Wow, thought things had started to improve in the sixties, 1973.
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Being that it's International Women's day, have a look at 261 fearless foundation.
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Posts: 8956 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Rupert Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 Mar 22 at 7:24pm
1973! I could have believed that sort of thing from a 1950s book on sailing.

Mind, given that the helms role is to sit on the edge and think they are in charge, and the crew's role to actually do everything, maybe the traditional dinghy roles just reflect real life.
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It seems the first edition of that book was 1964, so we can hope he didn't revise that chapter for the 1973 edition.
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It is really difficult to answer this without making oneself sound racist and that as sure as hell isn't the case.  But as one who was at the show, all day, both days, either iGRF had his eyes dazzled by some of the exhibits or he didn't see people faces -let's face it, it's not easy for him to make eye contact is it  LOL. 
Can I just point out to him that the young guy sharing MC duties with Hannah Diamond was demonstrably 'not white'. So there you have it - he was at the show, and he was  very much 'high profile' and superbly professional.

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I should just add, shortism is worse than racism, nothing we shortfolk can do about it, even Michael Jackson turned white, homosexuals, don't really have to practise, trans folk don't 'have' to be either, it's a choice, yet here we are without any shortphobic defense protocols to employ, denied jobs, universally prejudiced against, nothing we can do, we are the silent yet universally enslaved to prejudice minority..

Hope that makes you feel really bad.
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No one for any reason should feel disadvantaged, with you on that. I think you will find that if you were discriminated against because of your size, it would be illegal.
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