You know as well as me it isn't as black and white as that. What about when the the ref makes a mistake and everyone chats ****er should that be condemn?
I wouldn't isolate football from any other sport because I've seen similar incidents at the cricket, rugby and F1. It just seems like the mob mentality brings out the worst in people and they can behave how they like without fear of repercussion.
Has anyone seen Heather Rabbatts? I want to ensure I'm not being sexist, but I can't tell if it's a man or a woman.
I'm saying if it's wrong, all abuse is wrong wherever it occurs. You're the one discriminating. If it doesn't matter if they're a football fan, why focus on football? Why compartmentalise which comments are acceptable and which aren't? However clumsily it's done, is been described as attractive worse than being acused of buggery and sodomy? Will rl get rid of its cheer leaders or at least stick some fat old ones on and address its promotion of the archaic male attributes of rough and toughEdit Edit. I'd also say football is somewhere you're more liable to suffer repurcusions. Football has put a lot into report it helplines, CCTV, stewards and easy access to Police. There is also less proof needed for an ejection or a ban than society can provide.
How can I possibly be discriminating if I'm saying everyone should be treated equally. It doesn't matter in the slightest that they are football fans, the bottom line is a group of people are harassing a woman at her place of work without repercussion.
I agree. You also just described being online too. The other sports you mention are interesting because personally I've never heard any racist or sexist chanting at any cricket games I've seen, nor the 2 F1 races I saw and your comments surprise me. I've only been to Union games and again they seemed pretty pleasant atmospheres.
100% I experience this in my first job at 18. If I'd of said similar things to a woman I'd of been sacked.
Have a read. You're discriminating on several different counts, from what is said, where, who by and who too. The law itself discriminates.
The cricket game was the only time I've ever seen someone thrown out for it and probably the worst incident I've seen. It was quite grim really, late afternoon after a fair few pints about 20/30 blokes at the back of the stand starting abusing every poor girl that got up to go to the concourse. It escalated so that they left their seats and started blocking girls on the stairway, shouting and abusing them there. Eventually some of the blokes nearby intervened and got the stewards involved.
If you want to try to try to accuse me of something I cleary haven't said in order to justify your own prejudice and discrimination, that's up to you. Perhaps you could get rl to follow football's example and get them to action the "puffball" and "wendyball" comments that go unchallenged on their forums.
Perhaps you should clear up the tubby lard comments on this forum first eh mod? Its just like you said, all discrimination is equal.
By your discriminatory rules, it's okay to abuse fatty's. Gays and females have legal protection. Let us know how you get on.
Fattism isn't a problem though, and rightly so as its a self inflicted condition. Wendyball and Putfball are sexist and homophobic respectively, whilst Tubbylard is fattist only, and therefore not a real issue.
It isn’t that long ago that attending football or rugby was seen as a male escape from the hen pecking wife, it got you out the house. Anyone know how high the percentage is of male victims of domestic violence? 40%. Sexism is a two way thing. Don’t you hear the casual sexism women display when moaning about their useless boyfriends and husbands? Aren’t terms such as toy boy, sugar daddy, man flu sexist? Women are just as capable of a sexist mob mentality when out on a hen night or at a Ladies Day abusing male limo drivers, bar staff, young waiters etc, is this female behaviour acceptable? What about the sexist laws against men in child custody battles? Paternity rights? Do men have equality in a society where many women now earn more than their husbands? Its widely thought today’s boys and young men are now under more pressure than girls.
The Chelsea Doc is gorgeous but she must accept some sexists comments, after all she draws attention to it be posing in magazines and newspapers in her underwear and bikini. Some of these women want it both ways (no pun intended). They use their bodies to get noticed & then complain when men react.
