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Women's football team bans followers from calling them 'ladies' saying it's OFFENSIVE
Daily Mail ^ | August 1, 2018 | ROD ARDEHALI

Posted on 08/02/2018 7:12:35 AM PDT by EdnaMode

A female football team has called time on followers referring to them as ladies, deeming it offensive and suggestive that women belong in the kitchen.

For more than 30 years Hackney Women's Football Club has welcomed women who love playing the Beautiful Game.

But senior members of the team have now warned people to stop calling them a 'ladies' side because it carries the connotation that they should 'be in the kitchen and not on the pitch.'

Club player and Treasurer, Kristina Maddocks, ignited the debate when she said she told people off for referring to them as 'ladies.'

She said the term made many members feel uncomfortable and that the word 'women' was far more empowering.

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


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To: EdnaMode

The Left loves to have control over people.

The Left makes up random rules that they can compel people to follow. This is to groom people to accept being controlled.


21 posted on 08/02/2018 8:51:13 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is fixing the world's problems just to distract us from Russia.)
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To: EdnaMode

>> Tired of this PC era of everyone being offended by everything.<<

Easily combatted: Always use the offending words, phrases, etc. Take every opportunity to make the PC crowd suffer. I’ve grown to really enjoy doing it.


22 posted on 08/02/2018 10:07:07 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ( I would propound that that RT AmeriObama's legacy to the USA: A Criminalized Department of Justice.)
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To: EdnaMode

The football to which they refer is soccer. Women playing American football still has limited appeal, unless the uniforms are two piece.


23 posted on 08/02/2018 10:36:30 AM PDT by lurk
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To: EdnaMode

24 posted on 08/02/2018 11:22:20 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: PapaBear3625

I see now.

They a butch diesel dyke lesbians!

No one should coddle their mental illness.


25 posted on 08/02/2018 11:38:22 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (I posit that there IS something left worth fighting for.)
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To: EdnaMode

A decade from now we’ll be calling them all Trannies anyway.


26 posted on 08/02/2018 11:40:35 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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