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>>>https://sports.yahoo.com/news/ted-bishop-resigns-pga-president-221221219--golf.html
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>>>In the men's golf world... if you call a guy "Lil girl", that's considered sexist now by the "appropriate" evaluators.
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>>I read that last night, and that's ridiculous. Political correctness out of control.
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>I agree. It's absurd.
>But, it's more TV sponsor fear than political correctness at work here.
>The PGA tour gets the lion share of its money from TV sponsors, who are hyper sensitive to anything that might offend even the smallest group of potential consumers.

Sadly, you're probably right.

In the last hour I've been thinking of popular movies with pretty well-recalled scenes involving dialog along the lines of what this guy said.

Actually, the movies I'm thinking of involve Tom Hanks....he had some zingers in "League of Their Own" and "Green Mile" that were even worse than this one.
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