Sure, but that's barely true in this case. The fact that it 'sounds cutesy' to some, doesn't actually make it 'cutesy' or sexist.
I don't know, the Russian word is perfectly normal and is used for both men and women :confused2: It's not diminutive or something, it's just 2 words combined in one.
In English it does sound and is cutesy and somewhat belittling - what my more dinosaur male relations call 'girly'. In Russian it's not. The joys of Babel... but if the discussion is in English I think it should be avoided.
Does "Quacksel" sound too cutesy/sexist/quacky to anyone?
Let's keep that when we're feeling mean and we want to liken someone to a duck on the ice
Back on topic...
I think it's just a matter of how much the skater trains a certain jump. Along with the 3A, Nathan has trained every quad through the lutz, so he obviously spends less time on that element than guys who do one or two quads.
Maybe, maybe not. Patrick spent years and many many hours working on it, and yet it was always quite literally his bete noir. And yet others picked it up smoothly, can do it with transitions out of nowhere.
Maybe the girls are a little leery - I was listening to Yuzu being interviewed by Kenji Miyamoto (Kenjo no Heya in 2015) where he says that once he got the 3A down pat, he lost the feeling for the 2A (in ice shows he nearly fell, maybe it's back now, who knows?). Kenji also tells about his brief fling with the 3A but "too difficult so I moved on to quads" If the ladies decide they don't need the 3A and find it daunting to think of maybe losing both... maybe they prefer to stick to the easier triples. Or these days, follow Kenji.
Of all the jumps, it does seem to have the greatest mystique... at the minute, anyway.