• SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Honestly I’ve never really considered Jock a gendered term. I think personally I’d probably just use Jock as a gender neutral term.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    121·
    14 hours ago

    Tom boy was a pretty classic term though it has gained some additional connotations.

    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      idk about that. Tomboy means more than ‘girl that does sports’. If anything, I’d say the sports aspects are the additional connotations it’s gained more recently.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    16 hours ago

    IMO no equivalent. The closest word people might use is really derogatory, and has a connotation of being overly masculine for a woman.

    In the spirit of describing women who are extremely proficient at a sport but not being indirectly called masculine… the word is probably just “athletic”.

    • Floey@lemm.ee
      1·
      40 minutes ago

      A jock isn’t a “male prep” though, a jock is a specific type of male prep and male preps are just preps.

    • gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
      10·
      12 hours ago

      In my area, that’s a word for popular/materialistic girls, not athletic ones. I think OP means to find a term for girls who are athletic, not for the stereotypical girl “equivalent” (i.e., not a girl like Cher from Clueless).

      • SolidShake@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Okay. I was just saying in highschool, the girls that played softball or volleyball or whatever we’re called preps 🤷

        • gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
          1·
          33 minutes ago

          Oh, interesting; that wasn’t my experience at all. There were popular/preppy girls that played sports, but there was a separate type of girl that played multiple sports and made it, like, part of their identity like the guys did. Didn’t really have a name for them, though.

          I guess “jock” would work for a girl/woman, but if you said “I hooked up with a jock last night,” everyone would assume you meant a guy. So it’s not really a gender neutral term.

    • spongebue@lemmy.world
      1·
      16 hours ago

      Very similar time frame for me… I always thought that preps were more of an upper-class group. Maybe there’s a little overlap between those two groups though.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        13 hours ago

        Gonna channel TierZoo for a minute here:

        If you’re going to play High School, there are two ways to create the Jock build:

        • You can go with the Prep class and then subclass in Meathead. You’re going to letter in baseball, soccer, golf and track and field, your girlfriend is a cheerleader, you’re probably going to be prom king and you’re going to the college your dad did and probably join the same frat your dad was in.

        • Start out as trailer trash nobody and go for the “peak in high school” subquest, you’re gonna be on the football team and the wrestling team, you’ll date one of the three straight girls in the marching band’s color guard. You’re probably someone’s school bully. You’re not even going to apply to college. Ten years from now you’ll be other than honorably discharged from the marine corps and you’ll work as a bouncer at a dive bar in Jacksonville.

        It’s kinda rare to see a direct distaff counterpart to either one of these. In the former’s case, you get a cheerleader. She might run track or something in the spring but these girls usually throw themselves into shit like student government, yearbook club, whatever student committee organizes the dances, she’s gonna major in poli-sci and marry a lawyer for his money or she’s gonna get an MBA so she can be a self-proclaimed “boss bitch.”

        In the latter’s case, she probably doesn’t go for athletics or even extracurriculars at all, she’s a fixture at house parties with alcohol, she has basically no plan for life, through her 20’s she’ll waitress at various chain sit-down restaurants and/or cashier at Food Lion until she gets knocked up.

        There is a somewhat rarer class of severe tryhard, she’s convinced she’s going to be an astronaut so she takes herself 100% seriously, isn’t accepted to the Air Force Academy so she enrolls in ROTC at ERAU, is in every sport the college offers to girls, does basically no socializing, ends up an officer in the Air Force but does not become a pilot, resigns as a Captain and opens a shelter for abandoned parrots. Athletics are just a byproduct of overachieving with nothing to show for it.