Wires71 wrote:
You would have thought the club would have learnt the lesson from when Price uttered that offensive word last season.
I wish Price would have been given a 7 match ban.
The problem is, no one is silly enough to believe that Price is alone in insensitively using a term that's deemed unacceptable, it's obviously something that's been banded about training when referencing a player's core strength belying their true size. I'm sure if we placed microphones in every club and had a dedicated team analysing all that was said, we'd be totally shocked. I'll bet even the most holier-than-thou players make occasional slip-ups in general conversation.
If we want to sort this out properly, we need to work on changing the culture within the playing side of the clubs. And therein lies the rub: As someone mentioned previously, match day is like the battlefront in a war. The players chant crazy war songs and are sent out to fight after being psyched up to 'make them bleed' and 'cause some hurt'. Just look at the 'TF and the Wire' chant and the tub-thumping for heaven's sake. I don't think I've once seen anyone complain about that on here (me included) and yet I know damn well it's highly offensive to women as I watch it, when I'm pumped up after a win. Shame on me for not condemning it before now. At least I'll own up to it and accept it's a problem, whilst at the same time being pragmatic enough to understand
why we do it. I'm not going to take the moral high ground like I'm some sort of perfect specimen of a human.
Is there an easy fix? I doubt it. It's a long-term thing that needs some empathy and context, and won't be eradicated by a bit of simple 'cancel culture' (am I still allowed to use
that term?
).
