Footballer Fever
There’s seems to be a lot of evidence of misogyny in the paper at the moment. The inquest for the case of Dianne Brimble has recommenced. This is a sad story of a woman who saved up to go on a cruise with friends and family, but was found dead in strangers’ cabin after the first night out. One of the persons’ of interest, a man staying in cabin where she was found and who had sex with her gave an horrific interview where he blamed Ms Brimble for ruining his holiday by having the effrontery to die in his cabin.
LETTERIO SILVESTRI thought Dianne Brimble had "f---ed up his holiday" by dying in his cabin.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, he describes her as ugly, old and fat and that he only had sex because she wanted it and he was out on sleeping pills. There are plenty of stories of that evening of this man and his friends harassing and intimidating women with offers of sex and party drugs so it doesn’t seem that far fetched that things got out of hand and Diane Brimble just got caught up in the middle of it. However, if this guy had something to hide surely he would have made some effort to sound like less of a pig. Or is his misogyny so deeply ingrained that he doesn’t realise that what he says reinforces a callous disregard for women as people and that it makes him look like a guy who wouldn’t take any notice of woman in distress and would let her die, only worrying about his holiday.
The other article that annoyed me was about women who try to sleep with footballers (of all codes). Whilst I can appreciate the reminder that even footballers are capable of acting like human beings and will not always succumb to available sex, the article focuses on making these women look like sluts and power crazy idiots. The writer mentions that football is all about men and that women’s only way to attain some power is to get close to the guys, but only glosses over this point and goes on tell the women to get over it. To me that is the whole point: both men and women are attracted to power and fame, and in football (like many aspects of life) there is no role for women to attain power directly. With society and the media reinforcing for women that the best way to obtain money and fame is to be looked at (modelling, in a revealing dress on the arm of a famous bloke, beauty pageants, even supposedly talent based singing and acting are better for young slim ogleworthy women), rather than doing something such as education or business pursuits, of course some women are going to try to use shortcuts to power. Instead of blaming these women for the way they act, we should be looking at why they feel this is their best option.
Well, that's my rave for the day. I blame the antibiotics I am on. During the review of my wisdom tooth extraction the dentist decided I had an infection and upped the antibiotic dose. As well as giving me nausea, I have broken out in a rash from knees to neck. Luckily it matches the top I am wearing today - pink with dark pink dots.
Knitting update next time - I promise
LETTERIO SILVESTRI thought Dianne Brimble had "f---ed up his holiday" by dying in his cabin.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, he describes her as ugly, old and fat and that he only had sex because she wanted it and he was out on sleeping pills. There are plenty of stories of that evening of this man and his friends harassing and intimidating women with offers of sex and party drugs so it doesn’t seem that far fetched that things got out of hand and Diane Brimble just got caught up in the middle of it. However, if this guy had something to hide surely he would have made some effort to sound like less of a pig. Or is his misogyny so deeply ingrained that he doesn’t realise that what he says reinforces a callous disregard for women as people and that it makes him look like a guy who wouldn’t take any notice of woman in distress and would let her die, only worrying about his holiday.
The other article that annoyed me was about women who try to sleep with footballers (of all codes). Whilst I can appreciate the reminder that even footballers are capable of acting like human beings and will not always succumb to available sex, the article focuses on making these women look like sluts and power crazy idiots. The writer mentions that football is all about men and that women’s only way to attain some power is to get close to the guys, but only glosses over this point and goes on tell the women to get over it. To me that is the whole point: both men and women are attracted to power and fame, and in football (like many aspects of life) there is no role for women to attain power directly. With society and the media reinforcing for women that the best way to obtain money and fame is to be looked at (modelling, in a revealing dress on the arm of a famous bloke, beauty pageants, even supposedly talent based singing and acting are better for young slim ogleworthy women), rather than doing something such as education or business pursuits, of course some women are going to try to use shortcuts to power. Instead of blaming these women for the way they act, we should be looking at why they feel this is their best option.
Well, that's my rave for the day. I blame the antibiotics I am on. During the review of my wisdom tooth extraction the dentist decided I had an infection and upped the antibiotic dose. As well as giving me nausea, I have broken out in a rash from knees to neck. Luckily it matches the top I am wearing today - pink with dark pink dots.
Knitting update next time - I promise
posted by susan @ 3:21 PM
1 Comments:
At 12:27 PM,
Meg said…
agree agree agree- the reporting of the Brimble inquiry has gone beyond what would normally be considered 'news'. I am friends with the woman who made that Footy Chicks film. She has a lot of interesting stories to tell about filming that doco (that the SMH article refers to and is based on). Hope you're feeling better!
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