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Tigers of Old said:
He may not be. That doesn't mean his caricature isn't. Nuance friends. Nuance.
MD Jazz said:
Look it's definitely a bow. Not sure of it's length. I'm being as generous as I can. I reckon he knew he was sailing pretty close to the wind.
Pages and pages of posts and world wide angst and I've yet to see anyone refer to the "can you please let her win?" line in the cartoon.
Comedy gold.
Comedy gold.
KnightersRevenge said:
Pretty sure he would’ve been grateful for his employer backing his integrity. Societal norms shouldn’t be shaped by whoever makes the most aggressive pitch.
tigertim said:
Okay, try this. How many times do you need to tell someone they're being offensive before it is clear they're insensitive a**holes? They can claim the first few times that they don't get it. But at some point you've got to call an a**hole, an a**hole. If enough people are telling you the offense is there and have explained it in pretty simple terms and you're response is "snowflakes" (not you but has been said here). You're an a**hole.
A couple of interesting articles on this subject over weekend.
One was on stats around penalties against female and male tennis players in grand slams over past 20 years. An excerpt below
MALE tennis players are almost three times more likely to be fined for losing their temper and smashing racquets than their female counterparts, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Male players were slapped with 1517 fines compared to 535 fines for females according to data compiled by officials at Grand Slam tournaments for the period covering 1998 to 2018.
The figures obtained by the Times show that men received 649 fines for breaking racquets to 99 for women in tens of thousands of matches in the four Grand Slams over the last two decades.
Men were fined 344 times compared to 140 for “audible obscenity” and 287 to 67 for unsportsmanlike conduct.
This helps debunks the sexism myth Serena raised.
The other was by Tim Boyle on back page of sports section in The Age. I'm a big fan of his writing and he was critical of Knight and the hun. Has provided food for thought.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/rendering-of-serena-williams-plays-to-the-delinquency-of-our-thinking-20180915-p503zt.html
One was on stats around penalties against female and male tennis players in grand slams over past 20 years. An excerpt below
MALE tennis players are almost three times more likely to be fined for losing their temper and smashing racquets than their female counterparts, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Male players were slapped with 1517 fines compared to 535 fines for females according to data compiled by officials at Grand Slam tournaments for the period covering 1998 to 2018.
The figures obtained by the Times show that men received 649 fines for breaking racquets to 99 for women in tens of thousands of matches in the four Grand Slams over the last two decades.
Men were fined 344 times compared to 140 for “audible obscenity” and 287 to 67 for unsportsmanlike conduct.
This helps debunks the sexism myth Serena raised.
The other was by Tim Boyle on back page of sports section in The Age. I'm a big fan of his writing and he was critical of Knight and the hun. Has provided food for thought.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/rendering-of-serena-williams-plays-to-the-delinquency-of-our-thinking-20180915-p503zt.html
MD Jazz said:
Not sure about that. It takes the line that American culture is the ultimate arbiter of decency.
Years ago I was watching one of those all-night American news shows. A flavour-of-the-month British band had landed in the US and was being interviewed by the news team. One of the male US interviewers made an off-the-cuff remark about his female colleague's "fanny" (i.e. "backside" in the US). The band was shocked and said "You can't say that on TV!". The American said "Well I just did" and brushed it off without a second thought.
Why is it hard for some to accept that a lot of people here don't detect racism in the cartoon, except when told they should (and then only at a stretch)?
Haven't heard anyone tell the Yanks they need to stop using "rooting" in place of "barracking".
