Sir, – Your correspondent Peadar Mac Maighnais (Letters, March 16th) is surely being pedantic in the extreme – I hesitate to use the word misogynistic – in his dissertation on women as opposed to ladies.
He suggested that the GAA should drop the word “ladies” in describing women’s football.
But woman is a common term to define a female just as man does so for the male of our species.
I am proud to know and enjoy the company of many ladies and gentlemen of all walks of life and many who are ardent supporters of GAA.
Is he really suggesting that Countess Markievicz or the many wives, sisters, daughters of those executed in 1916 were not ladies or ladylike in accepting their fate as victims of that era?
His outburst is really quite ungentlemanly.
– Yours, etc,
DEREK Mac HUGH
Bray,
Co Wicklow.