Our thanks to Oz for this. An extract:
“An Australian radio presenter has left the network after comments he made about the country’s women’s football team – which have been branded as misogynist and disrespectful.
Marty Sheargold said on nationwide radio station Triple M that the Matildas players reminded him of “year 10 girls” and implied that their matches were boring.” [J4MB: ALL women’s soccer matches are boring.]
[End of extract.]
The Australian women’s soccer team is The Matildas. In 2016 – as the fifth highest-ranked women’s soccer team in the world – they lost 7-0 to a team of under-16s schoolboys, details here.
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to the sore losers who got upset over a valid comment.
I would say the same thing I saw on a YT video about womens football in Australia.
A male presenter asked his collegues who were pushing the narrative if they could name any of the top matildas players…. “crickets”…
just saying 🙂
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