Why Sport Needs Feminists




Clare Balding








2 thoughts on “Why Sport Needs Feminists

  1. unironedman says:

    And who’s the UK’s best marathon runner ever, and holder of numerous national and world records? Yes, that would be a woman too. And Jo Pavey is a legend. As are thousands of incredible sporting legends.
    It is indeed a man’s world when it comes to sport. I’m not sure why, though I might hazard a guess that this goes way back to the dawn of time, where ‘sport’ was really a continuation of war by less bloody means. Thinking about a lot of the earlier ‘games’, they were just quasi-military battles, and disciplines that stemmed from the army (or to put that in more prosaic terms, kicking the shit of each other). And possibly, it just so happens that blokes seem to enjoy kicking the shit out of each other more than ladies do. I could be wrong. That’s just the musings of an old fart who has a wonderful daughter studying anthropology and sociology, so perhaps I had best run my pet theory past her first. She’s my go-to person for an honest answer.
    But in the modern world; yep. Just grey old, farty old, baldy men running the world (into the ground) as usual.
    PS That BBC nonsense really got up my nose. Such a meaningless load of twaddle to pit an artist against a scientist against a musician against… you get my drift.


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