Swimmin with the wimmin
Anyone who believes that women should not be allowed to comment on sport, given that they are only interested in ogling the players' arses and the like, will take heart from the horribly unfunny Kat Slater does Six Nations piece on the BBC website.
The worship of celebrities has possibly gone too far at the Beeb and this has to be one of the worst conceptions you could imagine. Rugby fans are not going to be interested in comedy roundups by soap characters, and fans of the soap are pretty unlikely to want to know Kat's views on rugby players' hairdos. I can only imagine the twat who wrote it found it hilarious.
Mind you, read Claire Balding on women golfers and your prejudices will be swiftly confirmed. Women golfers get no respect because they are relatively useless. It's a problem for women's sport that it will always be considered second rate and struggle to get an audience because sports fans are all too aware that the women cannot beat the men. It is always at the back of your mind. This is important. It's all very well applauding the aesthetic qualities of the women's game, say, in football, but sport is about winning.
This is not to say that women's sport is not worthy of support, government money, sponsorship, coverage in the papers. Of course it is. I would be very proud if one day Zenella was to represent Australia as a Matilda. And, as Ms Balding points out, there are sports where men and women compete on a par.
But we'll always stuff them at footer.
posted by Dr Zen @ 1:38 am
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