Re: Suarez paves the way for Anfield switch as Babel nears the exit door
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Neets is just doing her contrarian/devils advocate thing. I don't think she believes what she is saying, because it's an incredibly weak argument.
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Like I said, they're obviously wrong for saying what they did, and I more than anyone totally disagree with them: I'm a female football fan.
But I just think the whole thing's being blown out of proportion. Is anyone surprised that two fifty-something year old men think this? Really? No. So let's not all act like it's shocking that they do.
And like I said, everyone on here is just going to town on them, cos it's them. Would we be saying the same if it was Alan Hansern? Of course not.
But hearing people compare it to racism is just plain pissing me off. It's not the same, they're comments didn't include broadly recognised sexist terms, instead what they said was specific to football, what Ron Atkinson said was not, the term that he chose to use goes well beyond football. The two cases cannot be compared.
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Agreed, it's not surprising.
I disagree that it's because people hate them. There'd be just as much uproar if it was Alan Hansen.
The point that you are making that just doesn't make any sense is your attempt to compartmentalize a generalization. If I said "African Americans are not capable of being Engineers" it would be a deeply racist thing to say. It wouldn't not be racist because I was applying my racism to a specific pursuit, and that my terminology wasn't racist.
I don't see the difference between the statement "African Americans are not capable of being Engineers", the statement "Niggers are dumb", it's just that the second is more crass.
It's not the same as racism, but it is just sexism, and the generalization that goes with it is the same mechanism. What they said wasn't specific to football. Their statement, like much sexism throughout the ages says that they aren't capable of understanding a priveleged set of knowledge due to a deficiency inherent to their gender. Then the "do me a favour, love" betrays a total condescension not even worthy of articulation.
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excellent post mate.
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Again, I disagree. Because you're black people are bad engineers is a baseless comment to make, where as football *is* a male dominated sport, the PL has only male players, manager and officials, so they're comments are not baseless, see my couture fashion example for a more proportionate comparison.
Like I said, they're wrong, but it's not on the same level as Ron Atkinson's statement, no way.
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But their remark wasn't "there aren't a lot of women in football" and instead was baseless. I really don't know what you are saying.
