Diddums
A guy called Francesca Needham makes a “statement” on why he’s not playing football any more:
Subject: Important Announcement Regarding My Role at Rossington Main Ladies FC
Dear club, league, and all Football Association officials
It is with a mix of disappointment and resolve that I find myself having to address a recent development impacting myself and my team.
As some of you may have heard, Rossington Main Ladies FC has faced challenges from teams unwilling to play against us while I am on the field. This unfortunate circumstance has prompted me to investigate pursuing a case of discrimination, as I believe it represents a breach of the code of conduct regarding diversity and inclusion, as well as safeguarding of adults in football established by both the Football Association and the Sheffield and Hallamshire Women and Girls League.
You notice he doesn’t say why the teams are unwilling to play against him. It is, of course, because he’s a man. He considers it illegitimate wrong bad “discrimination” for women to refuse to be battered by him when playing football.
Therefore, in the best interests of my club and my supportive teammates who stand beside me, I have made the decision to step down from playing football for the foreseeable future.
This decision is rooted in the desire to safeguard the team and the club’s trajectory. It’s disheartening to acknowledge that this situation contradicts everything in the diversity and inclusion policies, given that I have diligently met every single requirement set out by the Football Association to play.
“Diversity” and “inclusion” should not mean forcing women to play football against men.
I sincerely hope that this issue of perceived discrimination against me can be resolved peacefully and promptly, with the full support of the Football Association and the policies they have written and approved.
Of course he is the only person who matters in this scenario. The women are just cardboard dummies; he’s the only actual person involved.
Which one is he?
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If he steps down he’ll still be the same height as the rest of the team. “Diversity and Inclusion” should not translate to “Bitches get Stitches.”
Well that sure sounds like a threat. Why wouldn’t this be resolved peacefully? It’s his lot that’s most likely to turn this into something not peaceful.
So you want them to keep the “rules” that let you cheat. What if the best answer is that those policies get rewritten to keep men off women’s teams? Sounds like the right course to me. You can always try out for the men’s teams if you have such a love of the sport. If you don’t make the cut, then too bad, join the vast majority of men who wouldn’t. Go find a men’s league that will accept your level of skill and fitness. If there aren’t any, find another sport. Your participation on a given team at a given level is not a right. Demanding to be placed on a women’s team is cheating, and a pathway that should not have been offered you in the first place. But no, you’ve ruled that correcting that error that harms women as out of bounds. Cheating is fine when it’s in your favour, but closing that loophole that let you cheat to start with suddenly becomes cheating?
McPerson principle in action.
Unfortunately, that’s just what diversity and inclusion mean in the context of (Critical) social justice. Restricting women’s sports to, ya know, women, upholds the structure of a society that is, according to the Critical perspective, constructed to continually reinforce itself and exclude other possible civilizational structures; i.e., the Queer utopia. It is therefore precisely because women’s sports are for women that achieving diversity requires the inclusion of those excluded by the traditional category of “woman”, specifically those who subscribe to the Queer worldview.
Don’t let the screen door hit ya where the good lord split ya, Needham.
Or you could play on the male/open team. If he is too slow or whatever to make the grade on that team with its more rigorous physical demands, well, no one is owed a place on a competitive team.