Gender bias in volleyball fans

[Dave2002]

This is sad - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29869909

What an admission - that men pass lewd comments at football and now also volleyball matches.

[french frank]

This is sad - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29869909

What an admission - that men pass lewd comments at football and now also volleyball matches.

I saw the story and signed the petition. Almost 1,000 people signed while I was composing my short message. Steaming up towards 1 million. Even if it is on change.org, I don't care.

[Beef Oven!]

I saw the story and signed the petition. Almost 1,000 people signed while I was composing my short message. Steaming up towards 1 million. Even if it is on change.org, I don't care.

I read the article too. Was going to post a link to it myself, but got to thinking that perhaps it's wrong to view the issue through western eyes.

The way I see it is that all these things are inextricable to a particular view of women. We can't cherry-pick.

Do we think that women should be free to watch volleyball, whilst covered with a burqa? No, can't be right, can it? I suppose it can, if we select certain bits of the issue and ignore the other bits.

But I signed the petition anyway, to make me feel good. I'm waiting for the next issue and I'll sign that petition too. I feel for people who live in regimes where petitions can't be signed. How do they sleep at night?

[amateur51]

I read the article too. Was going to post a link to it myself, but got to thinking that perhaps it's wrong to view the issue through western eyes.

The way I see it is that all these things are inextricable to a particular view of women. We can't cherry-pick.

Do we think that women should be free to watch volleyball, whilst covered with a burqa? No, can't be right, can it? I suppose it can, if we select certain bits of the issue and ignore the other bits.

But I signed the petition anyway, to make me feel good. I'm waiting for the next issue and I'll sign that petition too. I feel for people who live in regimes where petitions can't be signed. How do they sleep at night?

I see that cultural relitavism is far from dead. You'll never get on The Moral Maze now when Melanie takes her hols.

How do they sleep at night?

They probably take mind-numbingly huge scoops of whisky until they fall dead asleep in the wee hours.

[ahinton]

I've signed it too; thanks for drawing attention to it, FF.

[Beef Oven!]

I've signed it too; thanks for drawing attention to it, FF.

Well done, extra tuck for you this week, hinty!

[amateur51]

Well done, extra tuck for you this week, hinty!

That blows BO's 'working class' cover, Biggles