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Today is a terrible day for gender equity in sports. What it looks like is either continued sexism, or increased anti-feminist backlash against women who have been asserting their human rights to safety and dignity around the world.
- Female World Cup soccer players have to play on plastic artificial turf while the men have played on actual…grass. They started a human rights complaint but have now dropped it.
- And last year at the Australian Open, an idiotic [female!] Australian media interviewer asked Genie Bouchard after she won a match who she would date. Because female athletes are meat, right? And today, an idiotic [male] Australian media interview ASKED HER TO GIVE US A TWIRL!
That’s twice in two years that the Australian media are living down to their country’s stereotype of sexist pigs while interviewing her.
I wonder if this media fellow was pondering what he could get her to do and settled for a twirl.
Bouchard later said, “I don’t know, an old guy asking you to twirl. It was funny,” she said. NO ONE should be put into this idiotic position.
This continues to be intolerable!
More from my site
January 21, 2014 Can We Stop Treating Women Like Meat? Now? Maybe? Please?
August 15, 2011 Rogers Cup Tennis Championship Sexism
April 18, 2011 Embracing BC NDP Corporate Tax Increases
October 15, 2004 A Dystopic Project for a New American Century
October 31, 2010 Just How Galling is TransLink’s Taxation Without Representation?
January 22, 2016 We Must Completely Obliterate the BC Liberal Party
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Stephen Elliott-Buckley
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Stephen Elliott-Buckley is a husband, father, professor, speaker, consultant, former suburban Vancouver high school English and Social Studies teacher who changed careers because the BC Liberal Party has been working hard to ruin public education. He has various English and Political Science degrees and has been writing political, social and economic editorials since November 2002. Stephen is in Twitter, Miro and iTunes, and the email thing, and at his website, dgiVista.org.
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