Equality

jackieguaccamo

jackieguaccamo

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If there is this need for sexual equality and the need to have female representation in male sports presenting now. How come all the female presenters are attractive? Surely there's got to be some ugly females out there that know way more about sports. It's almost like in these days of equality for all, they only pick the attractive females.
 
Well Claire does middle class sports, and I have no idea who the others are. But on MOTD and other football based shows, all the birds are feminine and easy on the eye. It's not equality it's sexism, the fittest chick gets more airtime.
 
Also, all those mentioned by jg have been around a while, before any new agenda appeared. Newer ones like Alex Scott and the ones whose names I don't know on the Women's footie shows are rather different. Even snooker now has an attractive female presenter (not that I'm complaining because she does a fine job ;)). It seems no coincidence that they all seem to be rather attractive. Or maybe it is. Just one big coincidence, as Father Ted might have said.
 
jackieguaccamole said:
Well Claire does middle class sports, and I have no idea who the others are. But on MOTD and other football based shows, all the birds are feminine and easy on the eye. It's not equality it's sexism, the fittest chick gets more airtime.
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Natalie Jackson is a sports reporter on East Midlands Today.
I can assure you she wasn't selected to be easy on the eye.
 
jackieguaccamole said:
Well Claire does middle class sports, and I have no idea who the others are. But on MOTD and other football based shows, all the birds are feminine and easy on the eye. It's not equality it's sexism, the fittest chick gets more airtime.
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That makes up for their lack of understanding of the offside rule. Fair trade.
 
Jackie’s thread isn’t from the 70s. The phenomenon he’s drawing attention to is. I’m sick of Sky (and the BBC) turning football into the 2020 version of ‘The Price is Right’. Okay, ugliness is no guarantee of good sense or plain dealing, as Greg Clarke has just reminded us (and awful as it was, his shitshow in front of the Parliamentary Committee was of a piece with his recent track record on Project Big Picture). But the relentless Sky/BBC pursuit of the game show models of presentation and reporting keep pissing me off. The Sky Transfer Centre was once redeemed by the background antics of real fans. Now it looks and sounds like blokes flogging dinner sets in a 70s provincial market. BBC online reporting of the Premier League now embarrasses the trolls they keep trying to stir up. And whenever I watch a match on the box, I keep expecting Nicholas Parsons to open the curtains for another instant sale of a Qualcast next to a girl in a bikini. No issue with female presenters, most women know more about football than Lawro. But on the TV they don’t all have to be so young and groomed. Most men on sports TV aren’t. Most women on the TV news aren’t.
 
Club_B00k_Crutchless said:
Bit homophobic.

There was some very strange person posting on the old rivals site a few years back when I was lurking. I decided to create a similar username as a bit of a windup and started posting generally. Couldn't be arsed changing it in the end.
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Ah, right. Cheers. I remember that poster.
 
channys6thswan said:
Jackie’s thread isn’t from the 70s. The phenomenon he’s drawing attention to is. I’m sick of Sky (and the BBC) turning football into the 2020 version of ‘The Price is Right’. Okay, ugliness is no guarantee of good sense or plain dealing, as Greg Clarke has just reminded us (and awful as it was, his shitshow in front of the Parliamentary Committee was of a piece with his recent track record on Project Big Picture). But the relentless Sky/BBC pursuit of the game show models of presentation and reporting keep pissing me off. The Sky Transfer Centre was once redeemed by the background antics of real fans. Now it looks and sounds like blokes flogging dinner sets in a 70s provincial market. BBC online reporting of the Premier League now embarrasses the trolls they keep trying to stir up. And whenever I watch a match on the box, I keep expecting Nicholas Parsons to open the curtains for another instant sale of a Qualcast next to a girl in a bikini. No issue with female presenters, most women know more about football than Lawro. But on the TV they don’t all have to be so young and groomed. Most men on sports TV aren’t. Most women on the TV news aren’t.
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I think I have the answer Channy: the old tarts back in the day "generally" didn't follow footy, whereas there's more exposure for wimmins' footy hence there's more young presenters..... and youth today (both guys & gals) are all groomed to one inch of their bleeding lives!
 
Got that. Someone needs to tell Lee Hendrie that groomed doesn’t mean dressing up like a character from Depp’s Willy Wonka.
 
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Nicholas Parsons was a life-long Leicester City fan. He was our celebrity representative on Quizball. As a child he stuttered,had migraines and dyslexia. Excellent grounding for following Leicester City in fact.
I admired him most for providing the non-singing voice of Tex Tucker in the children's television puppet show Four Feather Falls!
 
I had a small role in the 4th episode of series 2. After robbing the Eureka Silver Mine my puppet evades capture by Sheriff Tex Tucker, by escaping backwards and disguising my trail with false Buffalo hooves!
 
If you escaped backwards using Buffalo hooves, did the pursuers not stop to think, Why haven’t we been stampeded to death by Buffalo
 
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