AIBU to wonder if women feel excluded from workplace sport chat?

[Littletoaster]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51261999

Basically the women in this article thinks football and cricket chat in the workplace should be moderated as it excludes women. As a woman, I like cricket and join in with cricket chat. I don't like football but I don't feel excluded if others are discussing it. I don't think we need to start moderating sports chat. What do you all think?

Nope. I’ve better knowledge of sport than most men in my office. And the women who don’t care about sport don’t care what is talked about.

My speciality is football and I watch so much I can more than hold my own, it’s such a stupid, sexist article.

That's silly, I used to work in a team of 1 man and 3 women and we talked about football all the time! We all supported different teams so there was a lot to talk about. I then moved to a workplace where noone was into football so we didn't talk about it there. Talked about tv or whatever instead.

We were talking about this today, well we were trying to talk about it but kept being interrupted by the cricket scores! Isn't it rather sexist to assume only men like football and cricket ( although as a group we're more of a cricket/rugby lot rather than football!)

No more than the men that I've worked around being excluded by idle chit chat about make up and Love Island in my old workplace.

I'd rather talk about football than Love Island, or fashion or diets.

Rugby is my game and I'm more knowledgeable than my male colleagues

No I don't feel excluded, its just not an interest I share. I don't join discussions about Wimbledon, soap operas or diets either.

That's silly. I know lots of women myself included who are into football, who go the games and can absolutely hold their own and then some with any fella about it.

Some weeks I cant wait for Monday morning to discuss the weekend matches with my work mates, especially if my team have done well. Things are really bad if you can't talk about such harmless things. Sport unites us.

BS,,im male and i have little interest or knowledge of,for example, football. That excludes me from a lot of male conversation which seems to be dominated by football. Am i bothered..? Not a bit. As others have said, females also like sport .

I'd rather talk football than diets or TV. I have had men exclude me from conversation about football in one job though. They were United fans and I tried to make conversation about David Moyes replacing Fergie, but they just ignored me.

No more than people could be excluded with conversations about Game of Thrones or anything else lots of the office are into but not everyone. Once had a new start make a joke about me 'obviously' being interested in a sport because I must fancy a player. I didn't even have to answer because the timing was perfect of another colleague walking past and saying 'good luck, it's the final this weekend isn't it?' explaining that I had been playing for quite some time, ran the syndicates for the office and was the go to person for that pub quiz section.

I don’t mind, we talk about all sorts in work sport included.

No. Never understood it when people talked cricket (I do now after my son played it at school) but can't say it was a regular topic of discussion. Or any sport unless it was the Olympics or World Cup or Wimbledon.

Every topic will exclude people if they are not into it. My work it's the latest Netflix series

No that's ridiculous. I love the cricket and football chat, and there's a couple of men in the office who are far more into Love Island and the like than I'll ever be...

I don’t watch sport or soaps or X factor or much tv at all so I’d struggle in some offices not just by dint of being a woman.

Bloody idiot. Assuming women don’t like sport as much as men. I had a football magazine weekly from age seven. Still go to matches regular.And I follow Cycling, and Horse Racing. Don’t do junk like Strictly or Soaps though, but don’t mind if others chat about them.

Nothing irritates me more than all the cooing that goes on around babies, either from males or females

Most people work remotely at the company I work for so it's a bit of a different dynamic, but the water cooler chat channels about sport are always a decent mix of men and women.

Saw the article said the problem is its very easy to switch from sports talk to laddish behaviour about last night's conquests.
The latter is not appropriate obviously in a work place, keep sports talk though.

I've no interest but it doesn't bother me. Call of duty is the latest chat and I seem to have absorbed a load of random information up about it

@Getitwright my manager "if you are asking can you bring a dog in then yes, the answer is always yes. Babies have a 10 min rule"

I'd rather chat about rugby, cricket, cycling or tennis as I know much more about them than soaps, fashion or reality TV. Football, though? I haven't a clue

I am a woman, I definitely can’t join into the sport chat, can’t say this is true of my other female colleagues though.