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<blockquote data-quote="gingergenius" data-source="post: 302225"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (An Tarbh @ Feb 7 2010, 10:37 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=435791" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>there's all sorts of political correctness going on at the BBC, have to have a woman, that's Logan and McLoughlin, have to have all the nations represented and have to have someone with special needs i.e Guscott and Charvis. Charvis always sounds like he's reading his comments during a match, one too many high tackles during his playing career methinks.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>I'm all for having disproportionate numbers of minorities on TV, because that's one of the things that has eradicated racism and homophobia from mainstream British culture. They've not had this in France until recently, and this is one of the main reasons they're still having to come to terms with their non white population.</p><p></p><p>But with women, I disagree. Women don't need to be integrated into culture, because they are already a massive part of it. And also, all the women I know are into rugby precisely because of its manliness, not because there's a stupid woman on the sidelines.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="gingergenius, post: 302225"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (An Tarbh @ Feb 7 2010, 10:37 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=435791']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> there's all sorts of political correctness going on at the BBC, have to have a woman, that's Logan and McLoughlin, have to have all the nations represented and have to have someone with special needs i.e Guscott and Charvis. Charvis always sounds like he's reading his comments during a match, one too many high tackles during his playing career methinks. [/b][/quote] I'm all for having disproportionate numbers of minorities on TV, because that's one of the things that has eradicated racism and homophobia from mainstream British culture. They've not had this in France until recently, and this is one of the main reasons they're still having to come to terms with their non white population. But with women, I disagree. Women don't need to be integrated into culture, because they are already a massive part of it. And also, all the women I know are into rugby precisely because of its manliness, not because there's a stupid woman on the sidelines. [/QUOTE]
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