Pet peeve

jts · **#21**

xed_over wrote:

jts wrote:

This is a problem that should never arise in go, due to the (I thought) convention that regardless of the gender of the players, Black is always she and White is always he.

and who do you think invented that silly convention ---> political correct supporters (not wanting to offend female players)

Ahh, those radical Chinese feminists, cleverly associating femininity with darkness, descent, death, cold, shade, and the color black.

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Oh, and dampness. Don't forget dampness.

Xiaoding38 · **#22**

At the American club I play at, we use "white" or "black", as in "white moves here". Anything else sounds wrong.

daal · **#23**

jts wrote:

Ahh, those radical Chinese feminists, cleverly associating femininity with darkness, descent, death, cold, shade, and the color black.

According to this, in China, white symbolizes, among other things, death, whereas black symbolizes celebration. Maybe those Chinese feminists aren't so radical after all.

palapiku · **#24**

Janice Kim's books (highly recommended for beginners, btw) use she for white and he for black. Whatever works.

BaghwanB · **#25**

Xiaoding38 wrote:

At the American club I play at, we use "white" or "black", as in "white moves here". Anything else sounds wrong.

Using "black" and "white" just eliminates a lot of real or imagined confusion in my experience. No one can really argue about the color of a given stone. Unless you are the type that declares black and white are shades, not colors...

Bruce "HSB" Young

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