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A court [in / at] the U.K. has said calling a man "bald" is sexist. The judge in the court said using the word could break [equally / equality] laws. The judge said this was because the word bald is "inherently related to [gander / gender] ". This means that because [most / much] people who are bald are [men / man] , it is wrong to use the word [again / against] a man. This sex discrimination case came after a worker [gave / took] his company [to / at] court. The boss called the worker bald. The worker said he had an argument with his boss. The boss angrily called the worker "bald" and [fired / fried] him. The worker won a case of unfair dismissal in the court. The judge said the word bald was [harmful / harmless] , and that using it was sexual harassment.

The court had to decide if the word bald was [simply / simple] an insult, or whether it was harassment. Lawyers for the boss' company said [called / calling] a man bald was not sexual [harass / harassment] . They said that women can also be [bold / bald] . In court, they argued that: "[In / On] order to be related to sex, it would have to apply to that sex to the exclusion of the [another / other] sex." They said that because women can also be bald, it could not be harassment. A court judge disagreed with the boss' [lawyers / laws] . She said that commenting on a man's baldness is the [different / same] as a man making comments about [apart / parts] of a woman's body. The lead judge said the word bald was related [to / at] gender. He said this was because more men than women are bald.