Just imagine if the England men’s football team did well in the World Cup – difficult, I know, but please try to suspend reality for the purposes of this short blog! On their triumphant return home the team are greeted by the following tweet from the Football Association –
“Our lions go back to being fathers, partners and sons today, but they have taken on another title – heroes”.
Would anybody regard that message as being sexist? I doubt it.
However, earlier this week, a Football Association spokesman (sorry, person – or is it spokes? I can’t keep up these days!) tweeted a similar message about the returning England women’s team –
“Our lionesses go back to being mothers, partners and daughters today, but they have taken on another title –heroes”.
All hell was let loose and social media was ablaze with the PC brigade indignant over such a “sexist and patronising” comment causing the no-doubt bemused “offender” to quickly apologise and remove the offensive tweet.
Such nonsense!
Common Sense 
Absolutely right John, I’m sick and tired of this double standard ignorance from our wanting equality yet overly sensitive feministic minded society we know live in.
Why can’t people today appreciate the differences in the genders instead of labeling and exploiting their “strengths and weaknesses”.
When a writer expresses their opinion (that’s what they are paid to do) on a matter or event, take that point at face value. Don’t over analyze what’s being said to try and find some misogynistic hidden message that’s not even there.
Embrace the fact that the writer is trying to convey a positive story ABOUT winners, and not writing a negative story FOR whiners.
Perfect point about reversing the genders in the story to capture the public reaction to the point of the story. As you wrote John, had that been male footballers, no feminist would have given the story as second glance or probably not even read the story in the first place because it wasn’t about women.
If feminists truly want (and should have) total equality, then act more like men and stop being so damn sensitive about every little thing in the world that might somehow perceive your gender as being second class. Males have been doing that for at least the past few decades! Randy P.
Hello John, I wrote a response to this blog. Great point by the way. Didn’t know if it informed you of that. Hope your doing well and I’ll talk to you soon. Randy
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Just picked up messages! Thanks for responding. Dead right about double standards. All men – especially white able bodied men! – are fair game now for the feminazis, as somebody once called them! Speak soon. John.