Hirsutes, ye Score

Tomorrow night in Wisconsin, the hairiest-backed hockey fan in the house wins a trip to fabulous Las Vegas, which, being the showgirl capital of the United States, probably has some first-class waxing parlors. The contest is open to any fans of Milwaukee's AHL Admirals who are 18 years old or older, and who have "more hair on their back[s] then they do on their head[s]."

It's bizarre that the Admirals' press release about this contest forces a plural pronoun into a sentence where it doesn't go, presumably in the name of gender-unspecific language. Which, OK, is often a noble goal, but it's kind of horrifying to consider the possibility that the winner of this contest would be a non-male. "His back" and his head" would have been fine.

Print | posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:20 PM

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