Gotta admit it is very strange. Call it the woman's 2 mile. That's what it is.
Yeah. It's very strange. Usually it's the other way around.
National Basketball Association and Women's National Basketball Association.
Major League Soccer and National Women's Soccer League.
National Hockey League and Professional Women's Hockey League.
Association of Tennis Professionals and Women's Tennis Association.
Professional Golf Association and Ladies Professional Golf Association.
It’s not really the other way around. In those circumstances the men’s organization existed long before the women’s. They added women’s to avoid confusion.
In track it’s always been men’s and women’s. Intentionally dropping women’s is silly.
Word is that Chrissie Hynde has rewritten the opening verse and chorus to The Pretenders' 1979/80 hit "Brass In Pocket" for all the female youngsters who think they can control other people's perceptions of them and their sex by adopting trendy new gender identity labels:
I got brass neck I rock it I got bollox I'm gonna use it Attention, I need attention Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
World I gonna make you see I’m not ordinary, no one’s like me I'm special (special) So special (special) I gotta have some of your attention, give it to me