A Climb-Down

Let me be honest, I have never heard of “The Rogers Cup”. Evidently, it is Canada's biggest women's tennis tournament but I have never heard of it.

I do now.

The reason is because the organizers of the tournament were forced to change its tournament slogan this year after women’s group claim that the original slogan was sexist. The slogan in question? "Come for the ladies, stay for the legends."

The organizers for the tournament used the slogan because the event will also host a bonus four-man legends tournament featuring John McEnroe and Andre Agassi. The women's groups claim that the organizers were suggesting women can't be legends and protested against the use of the word "ladies" to describe female athletes.

Uh? I wonder if these women’s groups even know anything about tennis. I for one can’t understand what their problem with the slogan is. John McEnroe and Andre Agassi are tennis legends and female tennis players are called “ladies”. What’s wrong with it?

Of course since this happen in the West, the organizers back down and changed the slogan to, "making history, re-living history." Sigh; another typical climb-down in the face of unreasonable political correctness.