Eva Carneiro has decided to leave Chelsea. This is sad and disappointing, not for her, but for football. Women are scarce in the forefront of the sport, particularly in the medical arena. She is just as qualified and competent as her male counterparts. She was just as trusted by the players she treats. Eva was not only verbally abused on a public stage, but the media and some fans also provided undue scrutiny.
People are saying “oh this isn’t a sexism issue”. Actually, it is. When your manager says “even if you are a medical doctor or secretary on the bench, you have to understand the game”, it is an issue of sexism. Would that have been said to a man? No. Eva has been around football for several years, but nah, she just watches football, almost everyday, while day-dreaming about makeup and Chris Evans.
Eva is an example for young, aspiring female sports doctors. I’m glad she left Chelsea. I’m glad she stood up for herself. I’m glad she didn’t tolerate disrespect. I only hope she enters the public eye again, because she is a role model to women in sports medicine. We need more Eva Carneiros.
In Saudi Arabia women are registering to vote right now!
A big cheer for our sisters in Saudi Arabia and may this be just the next step on their path to equality.
This is not huge. It is actually not. Im a Saudi woman, my family has lived therefor over 50 years and NONE OF US have ever voted, heard of elections or anything. Its a monarchy. Even if someone somehow for whatever reason ended up voting, it doesnt mean anything. They are entirely irrelevant and on the long list of things Saudi needs to do for its women this is the absolute least relevant thing. Do the 35,000+ people reblogging this know that honor killings are still legal and one just happened just now? That to open a bank account, get a job orleave the country a woman must have signed permission from amale guardian? That all women, no matter how old, are treated like minors by the state? That women can lose their visitation and custody rights if their husband wakes up one day and decides thats what he feels like? What about the fact that women cant drive? Im barely scratching the surface here but this is just a “nice” gesture. It is more a silencing tactic than anything. Nothing more nothing less. This is not meaningful or relevant or imporant. Again, this is a monarchy anda dictatorship. There are no elections really, and the ones that maybe exist, do not affect real change and are merely symbolic.
Im bitter because the world is full of crap. Sorry.
It’s easy to forget that some countries aren’t democratic and voting has almost no effect
what makes this even more disgusting is that a GIRL tweeted one of these. there hasn’t been a day in my life where i’m not afraid of stepping into a jersey store confidently without having to worry about being judged- or walking down the hall at school in my favourite team’s jersey without being questioned.
I’d back up any lady in need because anyone can be a fan no matter who you are.
Even in the best of situations, dropping off a child at college can be a stressful experience. But some students at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, apparently decided to make “welcome week” a little worse for parents and arriving freshmen (Top image.)
The signs that appeared at ODU aren’t the only ones popping up on the nation’s campuses. Total Frat Move posted a few other photographs apparently showing similar incidents at other colleges, describing them as “hilarious.”
Has anyone ever taken a pad or tampon out into the light of day only to have boys and grown men back five feet away? This shit is tip of the stigma iceberg that women experience for simply menstruating. How many of those products in the image can cause toxic shock or infections? How expensive are those products? How often do they need to be bought/replaced? These are real issues that affect our health, finances, and social/internalized perceptions of ourselves. Men absolutely REFUSE to acknowledge us for our biology when it’s not sexually appealing to them. They refuse to consider our mental and physiological health, and mock and silence us when we try to talk about it.
Firstly I would like to excuse the way which this may come across- in lieu of context I’m sat with an empty bottle of rosé, cross legged in my pajamas, scrolling through the externalized, misogynistic drivel of the Daily Mails Sports column.
As a women- no, as a human- I’m finding it harder and harder to keep my cool about the endless silence that seems to echo around womens football. It’s a Cinderella effect, the press are so disinterested in womens football and why wouldn’t they be– after all, just how many females do you see involved in football punditry and coverage?
It is a universal truth that within the sweaty realm of football, for Brits, the only thing bigger than the Premier League, is the painful display of masochism that is often mistook for supporting the English National team. I have never know grown men invest so much, believe so hard and support what can only be seen as the flip-flop failure of the English National Team. In what is, time and time again, a miss-shot, badly footed campaign in international football, we invest yearly in tabloid hopes, wall-to-fucking-wall television coverage and during the sacred chalice of the World Cup we expose ourselves to the misery and drizzle of British football. Football that seems to more resemble our miserable British weather than it does the enthusiasm of England fans.
This time round though, I have not failed to notice the cavernous lack of punditry, coverage and general media fuzz surrounding the Womens World Cup- especially our coverage of Englands Ladies Team. For a nation that seems so ready to jump into bed with pundits, a nation who invented the beautiful game, whose very headlines are aching for international football success, it is almost baffling how little attention has been momentarily dipped towards the womens national team.
On the back of Englands win over Canada, which hurtles them into the semi-finals of the world cup, I took a scroll through several online newpapers. It has been less than 24 hours since the game in Canada and already in the order of ‘interest’ of headlines, in particular on the Daily Mail, womens success has already been bypassed by the news that Ronaldos son is playing football on a beach in the Bahamas, the fact the Rio Ferdinand spent his weekend at Glastonbury and the tantalizing, oh-so-important feature explaining just how Brazil fans are still asking David Luiz for selfies, despite their flop after Copa America. Seriously? And the Daily Mail is far from alone in its actions.
The Lionesses have just beaten home-side Canada to earn a historic place in the semi-finals, in a match watched by 1.6 million tv viewers (in spite of conflicting time-zones) and yet analysis, media conjecture and headlines are already being watered down. Admittedly, womens football is not the same as mens- it is, in-arguably, played at a slower pace.. but the inventive set-pieces, threatening runs, and overall composure of the game is still the same; as demonstrated by the almost effortless Jodie Taylor goal that sprang from a defensive mistake just 11 minutes into play.
As not just a fan, but as a girl growing up among the beautiful game, I’m dissatisfied with current coverage- yes this Womens World Cup has raised the profile of womens football within the UK, but I’m still skeptical as to the lasting effects and the blanket-effect that seems to command womens football. Amongst pundits, columists and the male-dominated world of football coverage, womens football is not getting the focus and presence it deserves. Fact. After all, try to name six female football players. Tell me I’m wrong someone?
I get so annoyed when I observe willfully incompetent fathers. Last night my mom and I went to a restaurant that had a lot of families, and honestly, almost all of the dads I noticed were totally useless in their behavior. They mostly sat around and ate while the moms fed the kids, took the kids to the salad bar, refilled the kids’ drinks, cleaned the kids up, took the kids to the bathroom, entertained the kids, calmed the kids when they got fussy, etc.
So then it bothers me when people act like it’s “cute” or worthy of a sitcom trope when dads are clueless…because the subsequent assumption is that it’s not a big deal because his wife or some other woman will let him off the hook and take over (as she “should” because women are made to be caregivers and assumed to be naturally nurturing)! There’s nothing amusing about a grown man refusing to do simple things for his own children and essentially forcing his wife (and/or other women in his life) to pick up his slack.
I just feel sorry for all of the women out there who do so much work that is not appreciated or valued. Women in general work so hard.
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