She is only 15 and still have feminist: Henrietta Berner took the Swedish Football Association a piece of masculinity – because he now wants to pay attention to gender-neutral language. How do they do it?

For almost ten years, she plays football, she knows that the boys be allowed to train often more pleasant times, and that the boys from right coaches are trained, not only for parents. Annoyed, she has always been. But this time they not only felt unfairly treated, but marginalized. That’s why she wrote an e-mail – and took the Swedish football so that a piece of his manhood.

The 15-year-old Swede Henrietta Berner, blond and petite, had attended a course for aspiring referees. Four girls took part and ten boys, she recalls. The instructor explained the rules and used here only the personal pronoun “he” had, referees and football players for him not, so it sounded at least for Henrietta.

Eventually a boy himself had reported she says. “Do you know that here, too girl sitting” asked the. “Excuse, girls,” said the instructor, “but I hope you know, I mean you, if I ” he says.”

As Henriette came home in the evening, she read in the rules that the instructor had given them. She underlined all “han” and “hans” and “honom” which she found “he”, “his” and “him”. Then she wrote an e-mail to managers in the Stockholm Football Association, who in turn introduced on to the Swedish Football Association. “I think,” she wrote in it, “that it is wrong, paradoxically, backward-looking and strange that explicitly picked one sex and is provided as standard in front of the other.” This, she says, is sexism.

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