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Fury as darts walk-on girls are SCRAPPED amid sexism row: Scantily-clad women [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 26, 2018 | Rory Tingle

Posted on 01/27/2018 4:50:50 AM PST by C19fan

Darts bosses have scrapped the tradition of using walk-on girls at televised tournaments after broadcasters got cold feet - sparking fury among fans. Women dressed in revealing outfits have accompanied players to the ocre for more than 20 years in a practice that has recently drawn accusations of sexism.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: darts; metoo; women
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Neo=Victorianism without the manners. Sometimes I watch darts on some obscure sports cable channel and will miss the 2 lovely ladies. Now they are out of a job because of MeToo prudishness.
1 posted on 01/27/2018 4:50:50 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Those women aren’t allowed in the New Caliphate.


2 posted on 01/27/2018 4:53:48 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: C19fan

Darts + Balloons. It was only for their safety.


3 posted on 01/27/2018 4:54:31 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ViLaLuz

Those women aren’t allowed in the New Caliphate.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I think you’re on to something, vilaluz.

The islamization of europe has spilled over tbe dart courts.


4 posted on 01/27/2018 4:59:36 AM PST by thinden
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To: C19fan

I guess these people won’t be happy until they’re in burkas.


5 posted on 01/27/2018 5:01:56 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: C19fan; Army Air Corps; yldstrk

Mark my words, the age of Edwardian Chaperoning is coming back.


6 posted on 01/27/2018 5:03:12 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: C19fan
TTIWWP!


7 posted on 01/27/2018 5:05:30 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: C19fan

“Hold my beer” Alert?


8 posted on 01/27/2018 5:08:08 AM PST by Paladin2
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They call that scantily clad. I see more skin than that at WalMart.


9 posted on 01/27/2018 5:08:20 AM PST by ImNotLying (The Consti.tution is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...Patrick Henry)
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To: ViLaLuz

....but they’ll flock to a go-go bar
like gulls to a garbage dump.


10 posted on 01/27/2018 5:14:31 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: ImNotLying

That’s only because it rolls out the bottom of a halter top. (And rolls, and rolls, and rolls...)


11 posted on 01/27/2018 5:20:04 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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"They call that scantily clad. I see more skin than that at WalMart."

True, but the skin in Walmart is not what you want to see.

12 posted on 01/27/2018 5:22:23 AM PST by Truth29
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I guess these people won’t be happy until they’re in burkas.

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I think they’ll use beauty goats and camels before that.


13 posted on 01/27/2018 5:26:16 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: C19fan

Yeah, the Brits wouldn’t want to offend their muslim masters now, would they?


14 posted on 01/27/2018 5:33:49 AM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: ImNotLying

“Scantily clad” is a journalistic term meaning “Offensive to the Feminist World Order”, not an actual description of how a particular woman is dressed. :)


15 posted on 01/27/2018 5:34:09 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: ImNotLying

True, but unlike Walmart you don’t have to bleach your eyes after looking at the two pictured above.


16 posted on 01/27/2018 5:43:17 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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“I see more skin than that at WalMart.”

But most of that is just flat frightening.

rwood


17 posted on 01/27/2018 6:01:10 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: Yo-Yo
They seem nice 🙂
18 posted on 01/27/2018 6:34:45 AM PST by catbertz
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To: C19fan

Wow, when will someone just say to these people, “No, that isn’t sexist, whatever that means”, or “no, that isn’t racist.”


19 posted on 01/27/2018 6:43:12 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: ImNotLying

Whoever calls those gals “scantily clad” must be a muzzie.


20 posted on 01/27/2018 6:47:54 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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