Monday, January 24, 2011

Yet more (un)acceptable sexism...

I never thought I'd be publicising so much about ethical issues concerning sex and gender but there seem to be so many. Here's another story about disparaging remarks made by Sky Sports presenters about a female line-judge and the offside rule.

3 comments:

Mike Austin said...

One of the ESPN people in the broadcast booth, Steve McManaman, made a comment about her qualifications as well after she rightly didn't call offsides, though it wasn't in the same ballpark as the Skysports ones. The replay showed how clearly right she was, and this was then emphasized by Ian Darke for the US audience on ESPN.

Mike Austin said...

More about the issue:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9371621.stm

Owen said...

And one of the commentators is now fired - a third sky reporter got implicated etc etc