It’s all about the money and pitch access. If women start playing these things there won’t be so much for the men. You can make almost anything about patriarchy…but in this case it’s correct. There is a very underutilised football pitch locally. Will the lessees share it with a women’s team? No way.
Since the people who advertise in the media decided so.
Seriously, though on a slight tangent, look at the shocked reaction from the British Establishment as the actual members of the Labour Party decide that they are going to decide who runs it, without the permission of Rupert Murdoch. Allowing ordinary people to decide what happens is undermining the whole basis of our democracy.
Now look at two of today’s papers where they have decided that the British synchronised swimming team consisted of one person (who is famous on their terms) and someone else who wasn’t in the picture. Reality is a manufactured construct for the media.
