[Politics] MEN. Stop talking about sport at work. NOW.

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51261999

Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned.

Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke said sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests.

"A lot of women, in particular, feel left out," she told the BBC's Today programme.

"They don't follow those sports and they don't like either being forced to talk about them or not being included."

"I have nothing against sports enthusiasts or cricket fans - that's great," she said.



"But the issue is many people aren't cricket fans," she added, arguing bosses should crack down on sports banter.

Ms Francke is concerned that discussing football and, for example, the merits of video assistant refereeing (VAR) can disproportionately exclude women and divide offices.


"It's a gateway to more laddish behaviour and - if it just goes unchecked - it's a signal of a more laddish culture," she said

"It's very easy for it to escalate from VAR talk and chat to slapping each other on the back and talking about their conquests at the weekend."

 

[WATFORD zero]

Just chatting this morning, 'I really don't think that Potter is making the most of the attacking talent we have, anyway onto the size of my Todger'

Happens all the time

 

[blue-shifted]

By the same token, will women no longer be able to talk about their favourite cleaning products or the best way to iron their husbands shirts?

Sorry, but if she’s allowed to live 30 years in the past and make ridiculous generalisations then so should the rest of us

 

[Brovion]

Sympathise actually! I work with three car bores who if they aren't talking about torques and camshafts are endlessly discussing the merits of various motor racing drivers. It is so, so boring. They are occasionally joined in this snorefest by a semi-car bore, but she's actually more of a motorbike freak.

Anyway, I'm trying to get the Irishman opposite me interested in Test cricket. He says he's interested but he think he's just humouring me. (The biker lady is more interested than him)


EDIT: And the car bores all hate football. (Again except the biker lady).

 

[Westdene Seagull]

If she stayed in the kitchen then she wouldn't hear the football chatter.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

"We REALLY got SCREWED over by VAR this weekend. That was SO TIGHT."

"That reminds me Dave, I met this gir......."

 

[B-right-on]

By the same token, will women no longer be able to talk about their favourite cleaning products or the best way to iron their husbands shirts?

Sorry, but if she’s allowed to live 30 years in the past and make ridiculous generalisations then so should the rest of us

Exactly. Sexist or what. My daughter is football mad and she's 30.

So we stop women talking about handbags, shoes, hair, clothes, household things like curtains and SALES / BARGAINS.

Jeez let's just not talk.

 

[el punal]

Let’s talk knitting, might have you in stitches but you must admit there’s always a bit of needle in there.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Shoes! Will women ever stop talking about the shoes they have purchased. Even Mrs. Marcos would tire of all the shoe talk.

 

[Pavilionaire]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51261999

Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke said sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests.

Her advice for line managers - keep a diary of conversations you hear.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Don't understand Var or women

 

[Stat Brother]

If THEY didn't spend all their time droning on about inane bollox like, money, bills, the kids, education and the future, THEY might find life a little more inclusive.

 

[Biscuit]

Interesting piece on the Business news on Radio Four this morning. They invited the author of this bollocks on and she got schooled. Utter nonsense.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

There is something of the 1984 about this.

 

[SUA Seagull]

“Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke said sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests.”

I strongly disagree with that assertion. In more than 40 years of regaling my work colleagues about all matters BHAFC, the conversation has never once transitioned from Bmuff to muff.

 

[Pavilionaire]

If find when I'm at work it's very easy to combine the cricket chat with the sexual conquest chat.

"That Broad ****ing loves Wood, what a pair, they were all over De Kock."

 

[AmexRuislip]

Don't understand Var or women

Men are from VARs, Women are from (insert).........

 

[Icy Gull]

Does this mean that women will stop talking about what happened in Eastenders, Coronation Street etc. I sometimes overhear conversations where I’m thinking “fecking hell, that sounds bad “ only to find out it was about a soap and they are being talked about like they are real people

 

[Easy 10]

I'm in a fairly quiet office which is mainly women, so whenever I'm on the phone, I'm aware I have an "audience". Our CEO is a Watford STH, so whenever he calls me, we generally have about a 20 minute chat about our respective teams, before rounding it off with about 5 minutes of actual talk about work, ie what he actually called me about.

I can almost hear the eyeballs rolling around me when we're on the football. But I don't really give a shit tbh.

 

[dingodan]

Football in a man's sport = sexist.

Football is for everyone = sexist.

I'm confused.

What exactly do I have to do in order to not be a sexist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind