We started thinking about that Jeepers Creepers song that goes:

🎵 I don't care what the weatherman says when the weatherman says it's raining 🎵

... and how rather odd that is, as rain isn't the only form of precipitation or other types of weather that could cause serious issues. Unless it's sustained and/or torrential, rain is pretty low down the scale of bad weather events anyway.

Wonder what the song would think about hail, hail, snow, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, heatwaves, typhoons, drought, etc.

But anyway, that got us on to thinking about why guys get weather man but gals get called weather girl.

Don't get us wrong: we're not someone who's against being called a girl by certain people in certain contexts. However, we can see immediately how intentionally infantilising that is.

In the UK, all weather presenters -- as far as we know -- are qualified meteorologists who work at the Met Office anyways, so it's odd that we're gendering them.

But yeah: weather person, weather presenter, or meteorologist seems more fitting than weatherman vs weathergirl.

On the other hand, we wonder if you could have other gendered terms, like:

• Weather-guy
• Weather-gal
• Weather-not-a-guy
• Weather-not-a-gal
• Weather-woman
• Weather-entity
• Weather-being
• Weather-system
• Weather-masc
• Weather-fem
• Weather-enby

etc.

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