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[Football] Why is it insulting to be called ladies
- Thread starter arfer guinness
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I read that as tennis knickers
hitony
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Hi, I am your English Mod (who lives in South Wales) now how may I help you?
Knocky's Nose
Mon nez est retiré.
Apart from when the club emails you and you get all excited that we've just signed a Striker from Manchester United... then find out it's Sally Scorealot, you shout 'oh for f*cks sake' and then delete the email.
A mex eyecan
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- Nov 3, 2011
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If she doesn’t like it called the ladies league may be she’d like it called the human league.
how Dare you
I am sure there are also some posts complaining about the phase out of leaded petrol, by men more angry (still) about the rounding up of prices after decimalization than they were even about the disappearance of the FA Cup money.
Silverhatch
Well-known member
Yeah, because we all LOVE those "Brighton & Hove Albion sign international striker" - oh, that Brighton & Hove Albion - headlines and subject headers.
Couldn’t give a flying **** about the BHA digital teams doing their job. There might even (very probably given Tony B’s vision) come a time when a WSL signing is very big news for BHA.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Fat Boy Fat
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- Aug 21, 2020
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I gave up when she said you could describe a group of women as sistren!!!
Yep, that’s what I’m going to do when I address a group of women, use a word that went out of fashion 500 years ago...
You're going to address them as wenches?
Brightonfan1983
Well-known member
There's nothing nowhere talking about a name change. Indeed, just a quick Google simply shows, at most, the CAFC page listing "Ladies' matches" in "CAFC Women's fixtures", so the club themselves don't even know - perhaps they haven't bothered to update that website placeholder since 2016? This whole 'story' is based on something extraordinarily manufactured to get clicks, stoke a 'culture war' or whatever, and we all fell for it.
London Irish
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Oooh doncha love a culture war issue as reported by our corrupt right-wing press - what could possibly be amiss here. It's funny how every British person used to yell "be polite" to all the youth - until it came to understanding Britishers who are a tiny bit different in some way to them and who might have different sensitivities? Then it's a massive "**** em"
HastingsSeagull
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Can’t comment particularly usefully on the difference between women’s and ladies. Expect they can choose what they want to be called I’d have thought. Makes no difference to most external folks so why not!
But on the topic of why teams in the women’s super league have to have a clarifying suffix, the regular ‘Brighton’ team could play a female if they wanted to I believe and she was registered correctly, however the teams in women’s super league cannot play a male player. I’m still kind of surprised an England ladies player hasn’t decided to join a team in the 8th-10th tier of the male game. I think they’d get better competition tbh (mainly due to depth of player base in the male game and less ability spread) and the only way to climb the ranks would be to go in and prove yourself. Yes would be some idiotic comments but expect most would be positive and no reason couldn’t climb up towards L2 type level I expect for a handful of players. Be a bit like when a younger male player goes out on loan. Yes more physical but if got used to that it could be a big advantage to take into the women’s international games and teams at those levels just like any other have a range of physicality in their squads but could certainly find a way to use a technically gifted player with the right coach and teammates.
But on the topic of why teams in the women’s super league have to have a clarifying suffix, the regular ‘Brighton’ team could play a female if they wanted to I believe and she was registered correctly, however the teams in women’s super league cannot play a male player. I’m still kind of surprised an England ladies player hasn’t decided to join a team in the 8th-10th tier of the male game. I think they’d get better competition tbh (mainly due to depth of player base in the male game and less ability spread) and the only way to climb the ranks would be to go in and prove yourself. Yes would be some idiotic comments but expect most would be positive and no reason couldn’t climb up towards L2 type level I expect for a handful of players. Be a bit like when a younger male player goes out on loan. Yes more physical but if got used to that it could be a big advantage to take into the women’s international games and teams at those levels just like any other have a range of physicality in their squads but could certainly find a way to use a technically gifted player with the right coach and teammates.
Perfidious Albion
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Looney feminist nonsense!
