If you read the article you would have seen that she said “sorry boys” after inadvertently revealing the winner was female during the build up to announcing the winner. A bit lame and infantilising, probably, but it was a marketing exec saying it so what can you expect?
Comment on UK | Man loses sex discrimination claim after boss says ‘sorry boys’ at awards do
MashedHobbits@lemy.lol 5 days ago
The director Megan Robertson told the tribunal: “When I read out the results for one of the award categories, I introduced it by referring to ‘she’ and then went on to say ‘sorry boys’. Given that approximately 95% of the workforce is female, this was not statistically surprising.”
So if men only make up 5% of the workforce, why single them out at the awards ceremony🤔
Sounds like the boss needlessly injected gender into the contest.
Womble@lemmy.world 4 days ago
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 5 days ago
Gender was needlessly injected by the English language, which requires gendered pronouns. The boss had no choice about referring to the winner as “she”, she just chose to comment on it.
Ixoid@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Did she not have the gender-neutral pronoun ‘they’ in her lexicon?
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 5 days ago
Sure, but she didn’t use it for the same reason you’re using “she” and “her” instead of “they” and “their” - she knew the winner’s gender.
Ixoid@lemm.ee 5 days ago
She absolutely could have used “they” until the winner’s identity was revealed to maintain the mystery.