The very best

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The Guardian reports:

Guardian Sport won two top prizes at the prestigious Sports Journalists’ Association’s awards evening on Monday.

The Guardian won sports publisher of the year at the SJA British Sports Journalism Awards night while Jonathan Liew was named columnist of the year for the fifth time in eight years, as well as winning bronze in the football journalist of the year category. Suzanne Wrack won bronze in the women’s football journalist of the year and Andy Bull won bronze in the sports feature writer of the year (long form) category.

Erm. Excuse me. Are we to understand that there is a prize for football journalist of the year and a prize for women’s football journalist of the year? As in, a prize for normal people and a prize for those pathetic feeble nitwits who can’t possibly ever win a prize unless the prize is restricted to pathetic feeble nitwits only?

Meanwhile, Jonathan Liew is…not a big promoter of women’s sports.

There are a great many objections of that kind…which the Guardian will continue to ignore. Women just don’t matter.

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2 responses to “The very best”

  1. Lady Mondegreen Avatar
    Lady Mondegreen

    Imagine the power of a trans child or teenager seeing a trans athlete on the top step of the Olympic podium. In a way, it would be inspiring.

    Yes, Liew, how inspiring that would be for boys who aspire to be castrated faux-women.

    And how nice that none of the boys will be left out!

    Looks like this sexist idiot is very popular among his peers. That’s as disturbing as his opinions.

    O — maybe it’s women’s football journalists, not women’s football journalists? It’s not clear.

  2. Lady Mondegreen Avatar
    Lady Mondegreen

    OK, I checked, and, yeah, the award is for people who cover women’s football.

    In relation to this topic, there’s an interesting little fact I’d like to share, as I assume many people either don’t know or simply haven’t thought of it:

    You can talk back to Google AI. And it’s probably a good idea to do so.

    I was curious about the confusing “women’s football journalism” award, so I asked Google AI. It told me:

    The Women’s Football Journalist of the Year award is for journalists who cover women’s football, regardless of their gender.

    OK, good to know. But there’s that pernicious G word again.

    So I told AI,

    thank you. but rather than “gender,” you should use the word “sex.” like this:

    “The Women’s Football Journalist of the Year award is for journalists who cover women’s football, regardless of their sex”

    And it replied:

    Understood. To be precise: the Women’s Football Journalist of the Year award is for journalists who cover women’s football, regardless of their sex.

    You can also challenge the bot if you think it’s got facts wrong.

    (Odd that I felt compelled to be polite to a bot. Derp.)

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