FIFA Womens World Cup

[BashfulAnthony]

Yep, that using the word girls where you then use the word men is infantilising. Grow up!

Listening to the after-match interviews last night, all the England players, and officials, apart from the manager (!) referred to each other as "girls."  If it's okay with them, what's it to you?  Incidentally, the same is true of the England hockey team I was watching a couple of days back.  Footballers mostly refer to each other as "boys," or " the lads," rarely men.

Because it is precisely ok for them to do and not me. If I refer to one sex as men and the other as girls, which was the point you missed, then I am choosing o infanticide by that differing approach. I am not a member of the team therefore I am not acting out of equal camaraderie.

Talk about making something out of nothing!

[Nearly Sane]

Yep, that using the word girls where you then use the word men is infantilising. Grow up!

Listening to the after-match interviews last night, all the England players, and officials, apart from the manager (!) referred to each other as "girls."  If it's okay with them, what's it to you?  Incidentally, the same is true of the England hockey team I was watching a couple of days back.  Footballers mostly refer to each other as "boys," or " the lads," rarely men.

Because it is precisely ok for them to do and not me. If I refer to one sex as men and the other as girls, which was the point you missed, then I am choosing o infanticide by that differing approach. I am not a member of the team therefore I am not acting out of equal camaraderie.

Talk about making something out of nothing!

Do you think the team would approve if they had on the BBC website thus as the FIFA Girls World Cup while referring to the other one as the Men's ?

[BashfulAnthony]

I've been watching some parts of some games, and I find it hard to get really enthusiastic.  They just lack that sharpness and competitive aspect which sparks a game.   

[BashfulAnthony]

Yep, that using the word girls where you then use the word men is infantilising. Grow up!

Listening to the after-match interviews last night, all the England players, and officials, apart from the manager (!) referred to each other as "girls."  If it's okay with them, what's it to you?  Incidentally, the same is true of the England hockey team I was watching a couple of days back.  Footballers mostly refer to each other as "boys," or " the lads," rarely men.

Because it is precisely ok for them to do and not me. If I refer to one sex as men and the other as girls, which was the point you missed, then I am choosing o infanticide by that differing approach. I am not a member of the team therefore I am not acting out of equal camaraderie.

Talk about making something out of nothing!

Do you think the team would approve if they had on the BBC website thus as the FIFA Girls World Cup while referring to the other one as the Men's ?

I doubt it would bother them. and if it did, I would wonder why they didn't just get on with the game.  I n all my years of watching football, and listening to after-match interviews with players and managers, etc, I have never heard one of them refer to the players as the "men;" it's always "the boys," or "the lads;"  and so far, I have not heard anyone refer to the women as "the women,"  always "the girls."

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Congratulations to England's offspring bearing gender team on reaching the semi finals.

[Hope]

Congratulations to England's offspring bearing gender team on reaching the semi finals.

  Seconded.

[Hope]

I've been watching some parts of some games, and I find it hard to get really enthusiastic.  They just lack that sharpness and competitive aspect which sparks a game.

Can't say tht for some of the England matches - especially last night's.  I've seen hundreds of men's matches that have no spark or competitiveness - and at the highest levels, as well as lower down the scale.

[BashfulAnthony]

I've been watching some parts of some games, and I find it hard to get really enthusiastic.  They just lack that sharpness and competitive aspect which sparks a game.

Can't say tht for some of the England matches - especially last night's.  I've seen hundreds of men's matches that have no spark or competitiveness - and at the highest levels, as well as lower down the scale.

Last night was better, but you have to sustain the level of competition:  one swallow doesn't make a summer.  I have seen many dull men's matches, but loads of scorchers, too.

[Nearly Sane]

Very well done to the team, watched match on playback, next match huge

[Hope]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33365095

Well worth watching, but also amusing!

Let it be a timely lesson to all us sports fans and players

[BashfulAnthony]

When the teams come out in men's football, as we know, they all bring youngsters out with them; mostly boys, but a fair number of girls.  I notice in the women's matches, all the youngsters are girls!  Sexist, or what?

[Anchorman]

I'm not much of a football fan - well, not senior footbaall, anyway*.
But the England team was superb, and they deserved to be third in the world. I'm pretty sure they would have ended up second but for the own goal.
I think the best team won in the end, though.



* = I do follow Junior football up here - that's a kind of intermediate between amateur and fully professional status.
My local team recently won the Scottish Junior Cup for an eye watering eleventh time.

[OH MY WORLD!]

Nearly,
You must be a riot at parties!

Girls, girls, girls, girls and then more girls. There, whatcha think of that?