Being gender neutral

 Being gender neutral ... 

I always associated the term  Batter to 'idli' and 'dosa'.

The other day I was watching an interview where Sachin would constantly repeat the term 'Batter'. 

I put it down to bad english although this was not the Sachin from the 1990's but a very mature, well heeled, sightly middle aged but the usual baby faced Sachin talking about how he and Rahul Dravid foxed bowler Chris Cairns with some of their shrewd and rather funny antics while Rahul was at the crease and Sachin at the other end at a match in Mohali.   

Interesting piece of story telling that one.  And a must watch. 

That is when I learnt Batter is the new gender netural term since the gentlemen's game has now caught on with the ladies as well. Although with the ladies' version the fanfare and bankrolling is nowhere near to what the gentlemen's version of IPL commands. 

Talking of gender neutral terminology, here is one one such place - the play arena 9 badminton place in whitefield  that clearly struggled between  

'to be gender neutral' or 'not to be gender neutral'.

But they managed to get to the point.  

      You cannot be always be gender neutral ...