I don’t think it’s necessarily helpful to compare directly to the mens game otherwise we fall into the same trap of harmful tropes. There are plenty of positives about the men’s game too. I don’t need to lift up the female game by pulling the men’s game down.
Exactly @ExhaustedFlamingo. It bores my tits off. Similarly, when people trot out that if women ruled the world there would be no more wars and we'd all get things sorted over tea and and cakes at a spa weekend my mind always skips to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Catherine The Great, Elizabeth I and others I have forgotten. There haven't been as many female rulers as men in history but those that existed weren't exactly backwards in coming forwards when it came to asserting themselves with armies.
I think a measure of women's equality will be when we are allowed to be as nasty, venal and petty as men - particularly by other women who don't do their sisters any favours by holding them to higher standards and indulging in fantasies about how nice women are.
Scott herself was involved in a notably aggressive clash off the ball with a rival player on her way to England winning the Women's Euros this summer. I forget which nation it was or whether either woman was booked, but it wasn't what you'd call a nurturing encounter. They certainly cared about it though and I think Scott was in the right because I was supporting England and emotions run high in football, women's or men's..
That said, I would hope that people of either sex were decent human beings. But to repeat, I dearly wish for the day when women weren't held to higher standards than men especially by other women.