Then there's field hockey, which in high school wasn't so much a women's substitute for hockey as it was the closest thing we could get to interscholastic hockey in Phys. Ed. without having access to summer rinks (There were floor hockey and foot hockey too, but the former was only inter-mural and the latter was just informal.). Judging from the bruises that the Blues came back from games with, it wasn't something that one could say was devoid of a certain amount of violence, though I doubt that the taunts and unexamined gender assumptions could be said to parallel the ones above. I don't think that prepending "the Lady" to a team name is a usage that I'm familiar with.
being a teen looking at the former-peer sibling who now has an adult life has some similarities to having older friends in high school who go off to university, finish their degrees, start work and get married before you've graduated, while staying close. I have seen that happen regardlesse of actual siblinghood.
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Then there's field hockey, which in high school wasn't so much a women's substitute for hockey as it was the closest thing we could get to interscholastic hockey in Phys. Ed. without having access to summer rinks (There were floor hockey and foot hockey too, but the former was only inter-mural and the latter was just informal.). Judging from the bruises that the Blues came back from games with, it wasn't something that one could say was devoid of a certain amount of violence, though I doubt that the taunts and unexamined gender assumptions could be said to parallel the ones above. I don't think that prepending "the Lady" to a team name is a usage that I'm familiar with.
being a teen looking at the former-peer sibling who now has an adult life has some similarities to having older friends in high school who go off to university, finish their degrees, start work and get married before you've graduated, while staying close. I have seen that happen regardlesse of actual siblinghood.