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Women's Rugby Interview on Radio 4

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anotherchangeyname · 30/01/2019 08:51

Listening to the women's rugby captain being completely patronising.
Did anyone else hear it at about 8.30. He improved a bit as the interview went on but started as though he was speaking to a novelty child act.
So disappointing.

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Sexnotgender · 30/01/2019 08:56

Missed it but probably glad to have by the sounds of it!
That kind of thing winds me upAngry

Firesuit · 30/01/2019 09:00

I'm confused. The women's rugby captain is a man? Is this another trans thread?

anotherchangeyname · 30/01/2019 09:03

I know nothing about rugby. Is Sarah Hunter a man?
Not a trans thread at all.

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Sexnotgender · 30/01/2019 09:16

Sarah is not a man!

BarbaraofSevillle · 30/01/2019 09:32

Well you referred to the women's rugby captain, as 'he' twice, which is the normal pronoun for a man, hence people assuming that you were talking about a man.

I thought you might mean the coach/manager, but if the captain is called Sarah Hunter and is actually the captain not the coach, I would assume that she is a woman yes I know you are not allowed to say that these days.

NewGrandad · 30/01/2019 09:34

I think the OP meant the interviewer as "He".

Northernparent68 · 30/01/2019 09:57

Radio 4 presenters patronise everyone, it’s not necessarily sexism.

Hobbesmanc · 30/01/2019 10:28

I listened to the same interview- cos I was stuck in ridiculous Mancunian snow chaos- and I thought it was ok although he laboured the point about equal pay a bit. I thought she handled him well

anotherchangeyname · 30/01/2019 10:57

She was brilliant. It was more at the beginning. Yes, he refers to the interviewer.

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