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Post by mrsonde on Sept 9, 2018 15:40:38 GMT 1
Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: That's not funny.
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Post by mrsonde on Sept 9, 2018 15:45:13 GMT 1
Q: Why couldn't Helen Keller play tennis?
A: She was a woman.
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Post by alancalverd on Sept 9, 2018 16:08:26 GMT 1
I think it was Lew Hoad who, many years ago, said "There's no sexism in tennis. Anyone can win a million dollars. All they have to do is beat me in five sets."
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Post by fascinating on Sept 10, 2018 9:49:17 GMT 1
I do wish sexism was eliminated from sport, so that men and women could compete in any game of tennis or football, or other sport, entirely based on ability.
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Post by jonjel on Sept 10, 2018 11:11:50 GMT 1
I do wish sexism was eliminated from sport, so that men and women could compete in any game of tennis or football, or other sport, entirely based on ability. A laudable ambition, but I can't see how women can compete on equal footing given that men generally are bigger and stronger than women. As for Serena throwing her toys out of the pram, shame on her. I don't know what stage the game was at when she berated the umpire, but suspect she was losing, and lost her temper. I don't want to see that sort of behaviour at any sporting venue. The referee or umpire is right, even when he is wrong. |
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Post by mrsonde on Sept 10, 2018 17:57:01 GMT 1
I do wish sexism was eliminated from sport, so that men and women could compete in any game of tennis or football, or other sport, entirely based on ability. A laudable ambition, but I can't see how women can compete on equal footing given that men generally are bigger and stronger than women. Except in Scotland. And people wonder why more men bump themselves off in Scotland than anywhere else in the known universe. Even Hull and Canvey Island. The cheating stage. God, I do! It might even make cricket watchable. |
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Post by mrsonde on Sept 10, 2018 18:00:35 GMT 1
I do wish sexism was eliminated from sport, so that men and women could compete in any game of tennis or football, or other sport, entirely based on ability. Yeees...I remember they tried that in the Cookery game, for a while, didn't they? Fanny and Sophie and Delia. Then Keith and Gordon and Jamie came along and no one could take them seriously any more, especially after Delia's infamous record-breaking attempt with a boiled egg. They had to resort to the usual feminine wiles by fielding Nigella. History's the same these days. I'm old enough to remember they once let Sister Wendy on the telly. Now a gal has to look and dress like a tragic pre-Raphaelite model, or a Gothic blood-drained victim of Dracula in heat. But that's not really a fair comparison. In History you generally have to be gay to get on the men's team. A bit fruity, at least. |
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Post by alancalverd on Sept 10, 2018 23:16:52 GMT 1
I've played mixed hockey, which at club level is mostly about skill, and mixed lacrosse where IIRC the ladies were allowed to bodycheck and barge the goalkeeper but chaps weren't allowed to hit back (I was the goalkeeper). Coached mixed junior rugby teams too, but by the age of 12 the Union (and AFAIK the League) wisely decided that separating the sheep from the goats was important if the girls were going to remain interested in the game: good result, as women's rugby has turned in a reasonable spectator sport and added to the bar profits.
Equestrianism, archery, sailing, canoeing and shooting are unisex, and I believe the UK salmon fishing record is still held by a woman. Air sports are ungendered: it actually helps to be smaller and lighter, and the International Aeronautical Federation decided many years ago to abolish women's records whenever a woman beat the current men's record.
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Post by mrsonde on Sept 10, 2018 23:26:39 GMT 1
I've played mixed hockey, which at club level is mostly about skill, and mixed lacrosse where IIRC the ladies were allowed to bodycheck and barge the goalkeeper but chaps weren't allowed to hit back (I was the goalkeeper). Coached mixed junior rugby teams too, but by the age of 12 the Union (and AFAIK the League) wisely decided that separating the sheep from the goats was important if the girls were going to remain interested in the game: good result, as women's rugby has turned in a reasonable spectator sport and added to the bar profits. Equestrianism, archery, sailing, canoeing and shooting are unisex, and I believe the UK salmon fishing record is still held by a woman. Air sports are ungendered: it actually helps to be smaller and lighter, and the International Aeronautical Federation decided many years ago to abolish women's records whenever a woman beat the current men's record. Yesss...the Talking Non-Stop record, indeed. The Continual Occupation of the Bathroom record, I remember that one well. That Remaining Interested in Eastenders record - f*#k me, that one went on for years. Until the blessed day that guy from Spandau Ballet got shot, bum-raped by Grant, whatever it was. Cotton-ball Collecting record. What are they for? Seinfeld never got around to telling us. Our council needs a weekly collection just for her. |
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Post by mrsonde on Sept 11, 2018 0:30:36 GMT 1
I've played mixed hockey, which at club level is mostly about skill Bollox, Alancalverd. Jews can't play sport, everyone knows that. They lack the intellectual inadequacy. OOohh...Prince Charles, he thinks he is now. The only Jewboy on the team? Huh? You're a Catholic priest now? Don't mention the goats. I remember, from my bar manager days. Nice markup on Babycham. Any sport you can do sitting down without thinking is fine. Anything the English stand a hope of winning a medal at, women can generally do. I blame Emily Pankhurst. She invented the PennyFarthing, which introduced the bloomers, and that led to bra-burning, bow legs, and droopy middle-aged dags, and Lance Armstrong's one-testicled drug-abuse. The men have moved on to farming them, I believe. Like the ancient sport of pig-chasing. Let's keep them in a pen, the men of the tribe figured: it's fuckin exhausting otherwise. The women could thus move in to become champions, with a few modifications to the rules. Hence the sport of curling. Air sports, eh? Now this is an advance. What can they be complaining about then? "If you want to know whether a nation is civilised, ask only if their air sports are ungendered." (Mahatma Gandhi. Or, maybe, Andrea Dworkin - I always get those two confused.) |
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Post by jonjel on Sept 11, 2018 9:49:34 GMT 1
I think after that we should get back to Serena Serenity and Sanity as soon as possible.
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