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Political Correctness & the FA
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If you think the tweet was sexist, it probably says more about your views on women
I'm not even sure what the fuck that's supposed to mean. Given that I think it's sexist because I doubt they'd have tweeted something similar about the men, despite what the guy who tweeted it said, I'm just going to assume you're confused.
Oh Em Gee.
Lazy is not a race. Feel free to call him a lazy bastard, if you want.
The longer I live the more I realize that someone will have a problem with something somebody else says, no matter how innocuous.
Free speech isn't really free is it. The least messy arbiter, it seems to me, is intent. The tweet's intent wasn't sexist.
Self-righteousness is the thing that really needs opprobrium.
Free speech isn't really free is it. The least messy arbiter, it seems to me, is intent. The tweet's intent wasn't sexist.
Self-righteousness is the thing that really needs opprobrium.
Quite a lot of women didn't want the vote and campaigned against it. You're on very shaky ground once you start to treat assertions from one so-called representative as proof in itself that it's all right. So personally I don't take the player's comment that it's fine as that interesting. She knows about football and not much else.
I can't believe you mentioned sickle cell anaemia.
For once I disagree. If the tweet had been or claimed to be about women in general that might have been a different matter. As it is, the tweet was about a specific group of women. Given the comments of members of that particular group, anyone who still insists on treating it as offensive is setting himself or herself up as someone who knows better than those specific individuals whether or not they "ought" to be OK with it.
He had an eating disorder!? I feel terrible for slagging him off now.
A specific group of women that the FA are presenting as role models to increase participation in the sport.
...an objective which their original tweet won't harm in any way, IMHO of course.
I think you're on dodgy ground with that though.
People often say something offensive without actually intending to be offensive, but that doesn't mean it's okay. The person on the receiving end will still have to put up with the same shit, but they should be expected to suck it up, simply so the other person doesn't feel guilty about it?
People are casually sexist/racist/gayist/anythingist all the time without intending to be, that's more a reflection on society than them as an individual
i dont give a shit....ill call a spade a spade.
the whole marxist pc brigade can go to fuck. if you are offended by a noise i make or text i type then the issue lies with you and your conditioning.
I've got no problem with people who are openly sexist/racist/whateverist and prepared to wear that badge with honour.
Say what you mean, mean what you say. Fair enough - I can respect that. Disagree with it, but respect it.
What pisses me off are the people who are those things, but get all precious when you call them out on it
Say what you mean, mean what you say. Fair enough - I can respect that. Disagree with it, but respect it.
What pisses me off are the people who are those things, but get all precious when you call them out on it
Racist cunt.
I call it a fucking shovel.
How do you use a shovel for that?
It's the punchline from an old joke about nuns in a convent.
I thought that was "Wears the soap".
This joke involves builders and their colourful language.
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